NASA Logo

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Back to Results
Women in Flight Research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from 1946 to 1995: Monographs in Aerospace History - Number 6This monograph discusses the working and living environment of women involved with flight research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The women engineers, their work and the airplanes they worked on from 1960 to December 1995 are highlighted. The labor intensive data gathering and analysis procedures and instrumentation used before the age of digital computers are explained by showing and describing typical instrumentation found on the X-series aircraft from the X-1 through the X-15. The data reduction technique used to obtain the Mach number position error curve for the X-1 aircraft and which documents the historic first flight to exceed the speed of sound is described and a Mach number and altitude plot from an X-15 flight is shown.
Document ID
19970018532
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Powers, Sheryll Goecke (NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Edwards, CA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1997
Subject Category
General
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:112715
NASA-TM-112715
Report Number: NAS 1.15:112715
Report Number: NASA-TM-112715
Accession Number
97N20485
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

Related Records

There are no records associated with this record.
No Preview Available