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Provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of automatic control logic for spacecraft and aircraft. This book describes the linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR) method of feedback control synthesis, which coordinates multiple controls, producing graceful maneuvers comparable to those of an expert pilot.

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This is a technical book for a specialized audience: engineers and test pilots in the aviation industry as well as aviation enthusiasts. It covers the history of the development of airworthiness from the earliest days of aviation to the modern day. The theme of the treatment is the feedback to the certification standards from accidents.

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This is a technical book for a specialized audience: engineers and test pilots in the aviation industry as well as aviation enthusiasts. It covers the history of the development of airworthiness from the earliest days of aviation to the modern day. The theme of the treatment is the feedback to the certification standards from accidents.

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In addition, he reviews the major elements comprising the flight management system and the evolution and operation of these instruments, discussing why the instrument panel is configured the way it is, and how ground and space-based components of the systems have influenced the design of airplane components.

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Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the worlds cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.

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This book brings together experts and analysts in international space policy from academia, government, and corporations, and from the technical and legal spheres. This volume provides a valuable mix of perspectives by experts examining the important issues of this new era of space exploration.

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Volume XII of the High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion series. Partial Contents: Historical development of jet propulsion; basic principles of jet propulsion; analyses of the various types of jet propulsion engines including the turbojet, the turboprop, the ramjet, and intermittent jets, as well as solid and liquid propellant rocket engines a

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This book is about cooperation. Substantively, it is about cooperation in Europe, as well as about cooperation in science and technology. Analytically, it is about cooperation as a form of structure and as a kind of practice.

(Paperback, 40th anniversary edition)

A textbook that offers a unified treatment of the applications of hydrodynamics to marine problems.

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In the years ahead, Wernher von Braun and his German rocket team, nearly all of whom became naturalized citizens of the United States, collaborated with American scientists to overcome enormous space achievements by the Soviets--and bungling by Washington politicians--to send Neil Armstrong scampering about on the moon in 1969.

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This fascinating book is the definitive account of the development and management of the astronaut training program, via a review of the significant written material and also through interviews with those who were major contributors to the program--including the astronauts themselves.

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Exploring the full extent of threats to warships and thus the transformational change in naval architecture to incorporate modern stealth technologies in all of a naval platform's design parameters.

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This historic shift from government to private leadership in space is evidenced in the many large and small companies already planning private space stations and battling to create their own launches at far lower costs than NASA's projects.

The book begins with an engrossing account of the causes of the Challenger failure.

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Presents the best and worst car names, advertising slogans and technical innovations, the rise of drive-thru culture and four- wheel drives and the films and songs that parked certain cars firmly in our hearts.

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The railway altered the landscape to the United States. Within a few decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time and space.

(Paperback, Revised and Expanded Edition)

The breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it reentered Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, reminded the public - and NASA - of the grave risks posed to spacecraft by everything from insulating foam to space debris. This title presents an account of environmental effects that can damage or cause poor performance of orbiting spacecraft.