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The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America; Volume 1: The Ascent of the Airplane, NASA SP-2003-4409
by Hansen, James R. (Editor)
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Washington DC: Books Express Publishing, 2012. Reprint of NASA 2003 publication. Hardcover. Very good. lxxii, 689, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Significant Aircraft List. Series Bibliographic Essay, Biographies of Volume 1 Contributors. Index. This is one of the NASA History Series. James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama. His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005. This first volume covers the impact of aerodynamic development on the evolution of the airplane in America. As the six-volume series will ultimately demonstrate, just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane. The documents collected during this research project were assembled from a diverse number of public and private sources. A major repository of primary source materials relative to the history of the civil space program is the NASA Historical Reference Collection in the NASA Headquarters History Office. Historical materials housed at NASA field centers, academic institutions, and Presidential libraries were other sources of documents considered for inclusion, as were papers in the archives of private individuals and corporations.
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- The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America; Volume 1: The Ascent of the Airplane, NASA SP-2003-4409
- Author
- Hansen, James R. (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint of NASA 2003 publication
- ISBN 10
- 1780396910
- ISBN 13
- 9781780396910
- Publisher
- Books Express Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- NASA, Aerodynamics, Airplane, SP-2003-4409, George Cayley, Samuel Langley, Hiram Maxim, Octave Chanute, Wilbur Wright, George Scriven, Wind Tunnel, NACA, Aeronautics, Orville Wright, Boeing, Gustav Eiffel, Jerome Hunsaker, Otto Lilienthal, Ludwig Pra
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