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Preface: The Historian as Participant xi
Introduction 1
Development of the Scramjet 2
Airframe-Integrated Scramjet 13
National Hypersonic Flight Research Facility 15
National Aerospace Plane 19
Scramjet Development-Lessons not Learned from 1958 to 1994 24
Notes 24
Phoenix from the Ashes 27
Small-Scale Hypersonic Vehicles 28
Goldin's Rules 32
Origins and Decisions 36
From Paper Plans to a Preliminary Design 42
Propellant Off-loading 44
Vehicle Recovery 46
Stack Frequency 48
Separating Is Hard to Do 50
Initial Efforts - A Summing up 53
Notes 54
March to the First Flight 57
Hyper-X Launch-Vehicle Modifications and Wind-Tunnel Testing 57
Hyper-X Separation Anxiety 60
Building the X-43A Hyper-X Research Vehicle 68
Mach 7 Scramjet Engine Development and Testing 78
Uncharted Territory-Hyper-X Scramjet at Mach 10 85
Notes 87
X-43A Checkout and Emergency Procedures Training 91
Step by Step 93
Discrepancy Reports, Configuration Change Requests, System Test Reports, and Waivers-Alphabet of Configuration Control 103
Emergency Procedures Training 108
Launch Day 117
Notes 120
13.5 Seconds 123
June 2, 2001 124
Mishap Investigation Board 131
Decision as an Art, not a Science 141
Dealing with Failure 142
Notes 143
Return to Flight 145
Revisiting the Simulations and Procedural Changes 145
Options for Reducing Transonic Dynamic Pressure 147
Fin Actuation System 152
Fin-Actuation-System Latch-up 155
Final Fixes 156
Notes 159
C[subscript t] > C[subscript d] 161
Flight 2 162
Fastest Airplane in the World 169
After the Flight 176
Significance of Flight 2 178
Notes 179
To the Edge of the Envelope 181
Fin Actuation System, Again 184
Tech Brief 190
A Long Day 193
To the Edge of the Envelope 195
Notes 206
To the Far Horizon 209
Hypersonic Lessons Learned 211
To the Far Horizon 224
Notes 226
Index 229
Supporting Materials 237
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John Tosi
reviewed Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program on August 31, 2015 Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program
I read this to learn about those NASA systems engineering secrets that Dominic Cummings is always blogging about. Got some interesting information about the structural evolution of US and European space exploration and a bit about gradually freezing designs and so forth from a systems engineering standpoint. The book was written in 2002 and the author is adamant that SpaceX style iterative development, if applied to rockets, will only lead to delays, cost overruns, and explosions. Well, SpaceX does have more explosions than ULA which employs a very US space traditional systems engineering standpoint but no more than is typical for a modern rocket company. I wonder if the difference is modern simulation technology or something organizational. Well, it's going to take another book to figure that out.
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Add Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program, This is the first full-length test-flight history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10. The, Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program, This is the first full-length test-flight history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10. The, Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program to your collection on WonderClub |
