The Power for Flight: NASA's Contributions to Aircraft Propulsion
- ISBN-10
- 1626830371
- ISBN-13
- 9781626830370
- Category
- Airplanes
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-15
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Author
- Jeremy R. Kinney
Description
The NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future
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