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- catalog abstract "This informal history looks at the personalities and events surrounding the development of airplane stability and control, both the science and its applications to design, from the pre-Wright brothers airplanes to today's advanced aircraft.".
- catalog contributor b10075700.
- catalog contributor b10075701.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Early Developments in Stability and Control -- Inherent Stability and the Early Machines -- The Problem of Control -- Catching Up to the Wright Brothers -- The Invention of Flap-Type Control Surfaces and Tabs -- Handles, Wheels, and Pedals -- Wright Controls -- Bleriot and Deperdussin Controls -- Stability and Control of World War I Pursuit Airplanes -- Contrasting Design Philosophies -- Frederick Lanchester -- G.H. Bryan and the Equations of Motion -- Metacenter, Center of Pressure, Aerodynamic Center, and Neutral Point -- Teachers and Texts -- Stability and Control Educators -- Modern Stability and Control Teaching Methods -- Stability and Control Research Institutions -- Stability and Control Textbooks and Conferences -- Flying Qualities Become a Science -- Warner, Norton, and Allen -- The First Flying Qualities Specification -- Hartley Soule and Floyd Thompson at Langley -- Robert Gilruth's Breakthrough -- S.B. Gates in Britain -- The U.S. Military Services Follow NACA's Lead -- Civil Airworthiness Requirements -- World-Wide Flying Qualities Specifications -- Equivalent System Models and Pilot Rating -- The Counterrevolution -- Procurement Problems -- Variable-Stability Airplanes Play a Part -- Variable-Stability Airplanes as Trainers -- The Future of Variable-Stability Airplanes -- The V/STOL Case -- Two Famous Airplanes -- Changing Military Missions and Flying Qualities Requirements -- Long-Lived Stability and Control Myths -- Power Effects on Stability and Control -- Propeller Effects on Stability and Control.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-359) and index.".
- catalog description "This informal history looks at the personalities and events surrounding the development of airplane stability and control, both the science and its applications to design, from the pre-Wright brothers airplanes to today's advanced aircraft.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 373 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521552362 (hardback)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge aerospace series ; 6".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "629.132/36 20".
- catalog subject "Airplanes Control systems History.".
- catalog subject "Airplanes Design and construction History.".
- catalog subject "Stability of airplanes.".
- catalog subject "TL574.S7 A2 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Early Developments in Stability and Control -- Inherent Stability and the Early Machines -- The Problem of Control -- Catching Up to the Wright Brothers -- The Invention of Flap-Type Control Surfaces and Tabs -- Handles, Wheels, and Pedals -- Wright Controls -- Bleriot and Deperdussin Controls -- Stability and Control of World War I Pursuit Airplanes -- Contrasting Design Philosophies -- Frederick Lanchester -- G.H. Bryan and the Equations of Motion -- Metacenter, Center of Pressure, Aerodynamic Center, and Neutral Point -- Teachers and Texts -- Stability and Control Educators -- Modern Stability and Control Teaching Methods -- Stability and Control Research Institutions -- Stability and Control Textbooks and Conferences -- Flying Qualities Become a Science -- Warner, Norton, and Allen -- The First Flying Qualities Specification -- Hartley Soule and Floyd Thompson at Langley -- Robert Gilruth's Breakthrough -- S.B. Gates in Britain -- The U.S. Military Services Follow NACA's Lead -- Civil Airworthiness Requirements -- World-Wide Flying Qualities Specifications -- Equivalent System Models and Pilot Rating -- The Counterrevolution -- Procurement Problems -- Variable-Stability Airplanes Play a Part -- Variable-Stability Airplanes as Trainers -- The Future of Variable-Stability Airplanes -- The V/STOL Case -- Two Famous Airplanes -- Changing Military Missions and Flying Qualities Requirements -- Long-Lived Stability and Control Myths -- Power Effects on Stability and Control -- Propeller Effects on Stability and Control.".
- catalog title "Airplane stability and control : a history of the technologies that made aviation possible / Malcolm J. Abzug, E. Eugene Larrabee.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".