Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA by Gorn, Michael H.

Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813122052)

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Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA by Gorn, Michael H.

Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA

$35.00
Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA by Gorn, Michael H.

Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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" Winner of the AIAA 2004 Garner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award Expanding the Envelope is the first book to explore the full panorama of flight research history, from the earliest attempts by such nineteenth century practitioners as England's Sir George Cayley, who tested his kites and gliders by subjecting them to experimental flight, to the cutting-edge aeronautical research conducted by the NACA and NASA. Michael H. Gorn explores the vital human aspect of the history of flight rese

Author: Michael H. Gorn
ISBN-10: 0813122058
ISBN-13: 9780813122052
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 08/13/2001
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.34w x 1.28d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2002 pg. 1067
By Michael H. Gorn
By Michael H. Gorn
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Michael H. Gorn, historian with the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, is the author of The Universal Man: Theodore von Karman's Life in Aeronautics.

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