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The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Lab. was established in 1917 as the Nation's first civil aeronautics research lab. with a primary mission to identify & solve the problems of flight. This volume highlights significant Langley contributions to safety, cruise performance, takeoff & landing capabilities, structural integrity, crashworthiness, flight deck technologies, pilot-vehicle interfaces, flight characteristics, stall & spin behavior, computational design methods, & other challenging technical areas for civil aviation. It includes descriptions of important applications of Langley research to current civil fixed-wing aircraft. Also covers contributions to the operation of civil aircraft, which includes operating problems. Color photos.Chambers, Joseph R. is the author of 'Concept to Reality: Contributions of the NASA Langley Research Centerto U.S. Civil Aircraft of the 1990s' with ISBN 9780756736873 and ISBN 0756736870.
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