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Friday, July 4, 2008

NASA Material 2







Another sheet demonstrating how NASA experimentation throughout the decades has led to materials and knowledge that have benefitted the entire aviation industry.

1. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
2. Glass Cockpit
3. Digital Fly-By-Wire
4. Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCS)
5. Area Rule
6. Lightning Protection Standards
7. NASA Structural Anaylsis (NASTRAN)
8. Composite Structures)
9. Thrust Vectoring
10. TURBO-AE Code
11. Supercritical Airfoil
12. Short Take-Off and Landing (VTOL)
13. Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL)
14. Variable-Sweep Wing
15. Winglet
16. Wind Tunnels

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