Thinking obliquely : Robert T. Jones, the Oblique Wing, NASA's AD-1 Demonstrator, and its legacy / Bruce I. Larrimer.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Larrimer, Bruce I.

Contributor:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, issuing body.

Series:

NASA aeronautics book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1910-1999.

Jones, Robert T.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History--20th century.

United States.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Oblique wing airplanes--Research--United States--History--20th century.

Oblique wing airplanes.

Research aircraft--United States--History--20th century.

Research aircraft.

Genre:

Government publications -- United States.

Online resources.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Robert T. Jones, the Oblique Wing, NASA's AD-1 Demonstrator, and its legacy

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, 2013.

Summary:

On December 21, 1979, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft (OWRA) took off from the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), CA, for a 45-minute checkout flight. It marked the worlds first flight of a piloted oblique-wing airplane. This historic flight, which was flown with the airplanes wing at its straight (0-degree angle) position, was soon followed by flights at wing angles of 15 degrees, 20 degrees, 45 degrees, and finally on April 24, 1981, at the 60-degree-angle design goal, thus proving the aerodynamic concept of an airplane with an oblique wing configuration. This initial oblique-wing program, which ran from 1976 through 1982, was a joint effort between NASAs Ames Research Center and Dryden Flight Research Center, CA, thus giving rise to the aircrafts name: Ames-Dryden AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft.

Contents:

American genius : R.T. Jones's path to the oblique wing

Evolving the oblique wing

Design and fabrication of the AD-1 research aircraft

Flight testing and evaluation of the AD-1

Beyond the AD-1 : the F-8 oblique wing research aircraft

Subsequent oblique-wing plans and proposals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246).

"This publication is available as a free download at http://www.nasa.gov/ebook."

Online resource; title from PDF title page (NASA, viewed July 30, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version: Larrimer, Bruce I. Thinking obliquely

OCLC:

884925988