Author: James E. TomaykoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project
Author: James E. TomaykoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Computers Take Flight
Author: National Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493594108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
One hundred years after the Wright brothers' first powered flight, airplane designers are unshackled from the constraints that they lived with for the first seven decades of flight because of the emergence of digital fly-by-wire (DFBW) technology. New designers seek incredible maneuverability, survivability, efficiency, or special performance through configurations which rely on a DFBW system for stability and controllability. DFBW systems have contributed to major advances in human spaceflight, advanced fighters and bombers, and safe, modern civil transportation. The story of digital fly-by-wire is a story of people, of successes, and of overcoming enormous obstacles and problems. The fundamental concept is relatively simple, but the realization of the concept in hardware and software safe enough for human use confronted the NASA-industry team with enormous challenges. But the team was victorious, and Dr. Tomayko tells the story extremely well. Today, digital fly-by-wire systems are integral to the operation of a great many aircraft. These systems provide numerous advantages over older mechanical arrangements. By replacing cables, linkages, push rods, pull rods, pulleys, and the like with electronic systems, digital fly-by-wire reduces weight, volume, the number of failure modes, friction, and maintenance. It also enables designers to develop and pilots to fly radical new configurations that would be impossible without the digital technology. Digital fly-by-wire aircraft can exhibit more precise and better maneuver control, greater combat survivability, and, for commercial airliners, a smoother ride. The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Project made two significant contributions to the new technology: (1) a solid design base of techniques that work and those that do not, and (2) credible evidence of good flying qualities and the ability of such a system to tolerate real faults and to continue operation without degradation. The narrative of this study captures the intensity of the program in successfully resolving the numerous design challenges and management problems that were encountered. This, in turn, laid the groundwork for leading, not only the U.S., but to a great extent the entire world's aeronautics community into the new era of digital fly-by-wire flight controls. The book also captures the essence of what NASA is chartered to do-develop and transfer major technologies that will keep the U.S. in a world leadership role as the major supplier of commercial aviation, military, and aerospace vehicles and products. The F-8 project is an example of how advanced technology developed in support of the agency's space program, in this case the Apollo endeavor, can be successfully transferred to also address the agency's aeronautics research and development goals, greatly multiplying payoff on taxpayer investments and resources.
Computers Take Flight
Author: James E. TomaykoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusader (Jet fighter plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Wind and Beyond: The ascent of the airplane
Author: James R. HansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Computer Vision – ACCV 2018
Author: C.V. JawaharPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030208761
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The six volume set LNCS 11361-11366 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018, held in Perth, Australia, in December 2018. The total of 274 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 979 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on motion and tracking, segmentation and grouping, image-based modeling, dep learning, object recognition object recognition, object detection and categorization, vision and language, video analysis and event recognition, face and gesture analysis, statistical methods and learning, performance evaluation, medical image analysis, document analysis, optimization methods, RGBD and depth camera processing, robotic vision, applications of computer vision.
History of Computing: Software Issues
Author: Ulf HashagenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662049546
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics
Author: NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, controls
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
The Wind and Beyond
Author: The Wind and Beyond
Author: James R. HansenPublisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Volume 1 relates the story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the United States.