The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America. Volume 1: The Ascent of the Airplane in America (NA Tapa dura - 2003

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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… Leer más