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Chapter 2 Aeronautics
The first A in NASA stands for aeronautics. In 1983 your students
accept
aviation as an integral part of their lives. Contrast for them air
travel in
1958 and now - propeller planes and jet transportation, 70-passenger
airliners
and jumbo jets that carry over 400 people, the dominant sea travel
of 25 years
ago and today's regular SST flights across the Atlantic.
Flying is so accepted a part of life that the immense strides
made in
just 25 years are hardly remembered. Nor is it recognized that most
of the
advances of these 25 years began with research in NASA's laboratories.
The
aeronautical research of the National Advisory ...