JOURNEY IN AERONAUTICAL
RESEARCH: A Career at NASA Langley Research Center
Monographs in
Aerospace History, Number 12
William Hewitt Phillips, January 1945,
age 26, then head of the Stability and Control Branch, Flight
Research Division.
- Table of Contents -
- List of
Figures
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- CHAPTER
1. Introduction .
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2. Early Life Through the College
Years.
- Parents and Early Years.
- College Years.
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3. Setting for the Research Work at
Langley.
- History.
- Description of Surroundings.
- First Assignments in Flight
Research.
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4. Flying Qualities.
- Flying Qualities Tests.
- Stall Tests.
- Brewster XSBA-1 Airplane.
- Short-Period Longitudinal
Oscillations.
- Spiral Instability.
- Snaking Oscillations.
- Rudder Deflection Required for
Trim.
- Progress in Flying Qualities
Research.
- Static Longitudinal and Directional
Stability.
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5. Analytical Studies.
- Graphical Solution of the Quartic
Equation.
- Solution of a Nonlinear Problem.
- Computation of Lateral Oscillation
Characteristics.
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6. Problems Encountered as a Result
of Wartime Developments.
- The Quest for Reduced Control
Forces.
- Flettner Tabs, Servo Tabs, Spring Tabs,
and Whirlerons.
- Research on Closely Balanced
Controls.
- A Control Surface Hinge-Moment
Balancing Mechanism.
- A Spoiler Operated Servo
Control.
- The Introduction of Swept Wings.
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7. Effects of World War II on
Research Activities.
- Effect of the War on Living and Working
Conditions.
- Some Effects of the War on Research
Activities.
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8. New Ideas-The Fruits of
Research.
- The First Piloted Simulator Used for
Research at Langley.
- Roll Coupling.
- A Method for Determining the Moments
and Products of Inertia of Full-Scale Airplanes.
- Towed Bodies.
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- CHAPTER
9. Unsteady Lift.
- Spring-Tab Flutter.
- Effect of Unsteady Lift on Snaking
Oscillations.
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10. An Automatic Aileron Trim
Device for Personal Airplanes.
- Development and Tests of the Trim
Device.
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11. New Areas of Research.
- The Wing-Flow Technique.
- Power Controls and Pilot-Induced
Oscillations.
- Human Response Characteristics.
- Landing Studies.
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12. Measurement of Turbulence in
the Atmosphere.
- Analytical Studies of the Accuracy of
Turbulence Data from Flight Records.
- Measurements of the Spectrum of
Atmospheric Turbulence Over a Large Range of
Wavelengths.
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13. Gust Alleviation.
- Background and Analysis of Gust
Alleviation.
- Design and Test of a Gust-Alleviated
Airplane.
- Analytical Studies of Additional
Problems.
- Future Possibilities of Gust
Alleviation.
- Review of Work by Rene Hirsch.
- Later Studies by Other
Investigators.
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14. Lateral Response to Random
Turbulence.
- Modeling the Turbulence.
- Calculation of Response.
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15. Accident Investigations.
- BAC-111 Crash Near Omaha, Nebraska, on
August 6, 1966.
- Crash of Convair B-58 Bomber.
- Accidents of the Republic F-105
Thunderchief Airplane.
- Analytical Study of the F-84 Following
Accident in High-Speed Flyby.
- Accidents of the Beech Bonanza
Involving In-Flight Structural Failures.
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16. NACA Flight Research on the
Vought F8U-1 Airplane.
- Results of the Last NACA Flying
Qualities Investigation.
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17. A Couple of Bloopers!.
- Improving on the Wright
Brothers.
- Relearning the Laws of Angular
Momentum.
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18. Administration of the Langley
Research Center.
- Organization of the Center.
- NACA Reports.
- Approval and Support of
Research.
- The Committee Organization of the
NACA.
- Formal NACA Conferences.
- Preparation of NACA and NASA
Talks.
- Meetings of Professional
Societies.
- Meetings with Visitors.
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19. Dawn of the Space Age.
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- References.
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- APPENDIX
I. Early Autobiography.
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- APPENDIX
II. Bibliography of Reports by
William Hewitt Phillips.
- NACA or NASA Reports.
- Papers Other Than NACA or NASA
Reports.
- Unpublished Papers in NASA Langley
Research Center Library.
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- APPENDIX
III. Solution of a High School
Geometry Problem.
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- APPENDIX
IV. Solution of Quartic Equation in
Terms of Two Parameters by Use of Charts.
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- Index.
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- About the
Author.
