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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics : Breakthrough Technologies to Meet Future Air and Space Transportation Needs and Goals
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (148 pages)
Series Compass series Maintaining U.S. leadership in aeronautics
Contents Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics -- Copyright -- Preface -- IMAGINE THE DAY -- BREAKTHROUGHS ARE REQUIRED -- INTEGRATION VERSUS BREAKTHROUGHS -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- CANDIDATE BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES -- Air Vehicle Technology -- Advanced Air Vehicle Configurations -- Embedded Sensing and Control -- Structures and Materials -- Advanced Propulsion and Power -- Manufacturing -- Computer-Based Design, Modeling, and Simulation -- Air Transportation Systems Technology
Models to Predict the Impact of New Technologies and Procedures on the Air Transportation SystemUpwardly Compatible Aerospace Information Systems -- Methodologies for the Development of High Integrity Software -- Advanced Human-Automation Systems -- Precision Air Traffic Management/Aircraft Operations -- Mitigating Constraints in Terminal Areas -- Space Transportation Technology -- Advanced Air Breathing Engines -- Pulse Detonation Wave Engine -- High Thrust to Weight Rocket Engines -- Variable Expansion Ratio Nozzles -- Advanced Propellants and Storage Methods
Integrated Aero-Thermal StructuresNovel Launch System Concepts -- Additional Goals for Space Transportation -- BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET NASA'S GOALS -- Cyber Technology -- Structures and Materials -- Propulsion Technology -- Aerospace Vehicle Configurations and Integration Concepts -- Precision Terminal Area Aircraft Operations -- ACHIEVING THE 10 AND 20 YEAR GOALS -- Meeting the 10 Year Milestones -- Meeting the 20 Year Milestones -- 1 Introduction -- EVOLUTION OF THE 10 AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY GOALS
The National Science and Technology Council's Aeronautics GoalsNASA's Strategic Planning in Response to the NSTC Goals -- Scenario-Based Strategic Planning Workshop -- Parallel NASA Activities Leading to the 10 Goals -- THIS STUDY -- Statement of Task -- Study Approach -- Workshop on Breakthrough Aerospace Technologies -- REFERENCES -- 2 Achieving NASA's Goals with Breakthrough Technologies -- FUTURE AEROSPACE NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES AND NASA'S ENABLING TECHNOLOGY GOALS -- Enhanced Air Vehicle Safety and Survivability -- Environmental Compatibility
General AviationHigh-Speed Air Travel -- Air Traffic Management and Related Air Transportation System Technology -- Enhanced Computer-Based Design and Manufacturing -- Space Transportation Technology -- DEFINING BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY -- ACHIEVING THE 10 AND 20 YEAR GOALS -- Meeting the 10 Year Milestones -- Reducing the Risk of Technology Adoption -- Accelerating the Adoption of Commercially Viable Technology -- Meeting the 20 Year Milestones -- REFERENCES -- 3 Air Vehicle Technology -- TOWARDS NEW AIR VEHICLES -- TECHNOLOGY THRUST AREAS
Notes ""Advanced Air Vehicle Configurations""
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Subject Aeronautics -- Technological innovations -- United States
Space flight -- Technological innovations -- United States
Airplanes -- Technological innovations -- United States
Aeronautics -- Technological innovations.
Airplanes -- Technological innovations.
Space flight -- Technological innovations.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309592406
0309592402
0309062268
9780309062268