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Author : James E. Tomayko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project written by James E. Tomayko and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James E. Tomayko
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781480218208
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Computers Take Flight: a History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project written by James E. Tomayko and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the Wright brothers' first powered flight, airplane designers are unshackled from the constraints that they lived with for the first seven decades of flight because of the emergence of digital fly-by-wire (DFBW) technology. New designers seek incredible maneuverability, survivability, efficiency, or special performance through configurations which rely on a DFBW system for stability and controllability. DFBW systems have contributed to major advances in human spaceflight, advanced fighters and bombers, and safe, modern civil transportation. The story of digital fly-by-wire is a story of people, of successes, and of overcoming enormous obstacles and problems. The fundamental concept is relatively simple, but the realization of the concept in hardware and software safe enough for human use confronted the NASA-industry team with enormous challenges. But the team was victorious, and Dr. Tomayko tells the story extremely well. Today, digital fly-by-wire systems are integral to the operation of a great many aircraft. These systems provide numerous advantages over older mechanical arrangements. By replacing cables, linkages, push rods, pull rods, pulleys, and the like with electronic systems, digital fly-by-wire reduces weight, volume, the number of failure modes, friction, and maintenance. It also enables designers to develop and pilots to fly radical new configurations that would be impossible without the digital technology. Digital fly-by-wire aircraft can exhibit more precise and better maneuver control, greater combat survivability, and, for commercial airliners, a smoother ride. The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Project made two significant contributions to the new technology: (1) a solid design base of techniques that work and those that do not, and (2) credible evidence of good flying qualities and the ability of such a system to tolerate real faults and to continue operation without degradation. The narrative of this study captures the intensity of the program in successfully resolving the numerous design challenges and management problems that were encountered. This, in turn, laid the groundwork for leading, not only the U.S., but to a great extent the entire world's aeronautics community into the new era of digital fly-by-wire flight controls. The book also captures the essence of what NASA is chartered to do—develop and transfer major technologies that will keep the U.S. in a world leadership role as the major supplier of commercial aviation, military, and aerospace vehicles and products. The F-8 project is an example of how advanced technology developed in support of the agency's space program, in this case the Apollo endeavor, can be successfully transferred to also address the agency's aeronautics research and development goals, greatly multiplying payoff on taxpayer investments and resources.
Author : James E. Tomayko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Computers Take Flight written by James E. Tomayko and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : World Spaceflight News
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549658426
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Computers Take Flight written by World Spaceflight News and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: One hundred years after the Wright brothers' first powered flight, airplane designers are unshackled from the constraints that they lived with for the first seven decades of flight because of the emergence of digital fly-by-wire (DFBW) technology. New designers seek incredible maneuverability, survivability, efficiency, or special performance through configurations which rely on a DFBW system for stability and controllability. DFBW systems have contributed to major advances in human space flight, advanced fighters and bombers, and safe, modern civil transportation. The story of digital fly-by-wire is a story of people, of successes, and of overcoming enormous obstacles and problems. The fundamental concept is relatively simple, but the realization of the concept in hardware and software safe enough for human use confronted the NASA-industry team with enormous challenges. But the team was victorious, and Dr. Tomayko tells the story extremely well. The F-8 DFBW program, and the technology it spawned, was an outgrowth of the Apollo program and of the genius of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory staff. Contents include: Chapter One: The History of Flight-Control Technology * Chapter Two: The Origins of NASA's Involvement in Fly-By-Wire Research * Chapter Three: The Reliability Challenge and Software Development * Chapter Four: Converting the F-8 to Digital Fly-By-Wire * Chapter Five: The Phase I Flight-Research Program: Digital Control Proven * Chapter Six: Phase Shifting: Digital Redundancy and Space Shuttle Support * Chapter Seven: The Phase II Flight-Research Program: Proof of Concept, Space Shuttle Support, and Advanced Experiments * Chapter Eight: The Impact and Legacy of NASA's Digital Fly-By-Wire Project
Download or read book Computers Take Flight: a History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-By-Wire Project, NASA Sp-2000-4224, The NASA History Series, 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Light
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076365695X
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Zephyr Takes Flight written by Steve Light and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a little girl who loves planes is sent to her bedroom for doing a loop-de-loop off the couch, she finds a secret door leading to a room filled with real flying machines and sets off on an exciting adventure.
Author : Gene I. Rochlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822262
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Trapped in the Net written by Gene I. Rochlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world. Drawing on fascinating narratives from fields that range from military command, air traffic control, and international fund transfers to library cataloging and supermarket checkouts, Rochlin shows that we are rapidly making irreversible and at times harmful changes in our business, social, and personal lives to comply with the formalities and restrictions of information systems. The threat is not the direct one once framed by the idea of insane robots or runaway mainframes usurping human functions for their own purposes, but the gradual loss of control over hardware, software, and function through networks of interconnection and dependence. What Rochlin calls the computer trap has four parts: the lure, the snare, the costs, and the long-term consequences. The lure is obvious: the promise of ever more powerful and adaptable tools with simpler and more human-centered interfaces. The snare is what usually ensues. Once heavily invested in the use of computers to perform central tasks, organizations and individuals alike are committed to new capacities and potentials, whether they eventually find them rewarding or not. The varied costs include a dependency on the manufacturers of hardware and software--and a seemingly pathological scramble to keep up with an incredible rate of sometimes unnecessary technological change. Finally, a lack of redundancy and an incredible speed of response make human intervention or control difficult at best when (and not if) something goes wrong. As Rochlin points out, this is particularly true for those systems whose interconnections and mechanisms are so deeply concealed in the computers that no human being fully understands them.
Author : Paul Garrison
Publisher : Wiley Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Microcomputers and Aviation written by Paul Garrison and published by Wiley Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Tomayko
Publisher : Alpha Computer
ISBN 13 : 9781567615012
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Computers in Flight written by James Tomayko and published by Alpha Computer. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers in Flight shows users computer technology and aviation techniques that cannot be found in other books. It covers all aspects of computer technology in aviation, from military aircraft to commercial airliners, from flight simulators to air traffic control. All technical information is presented in language that the layman can understand.
Author : James E. Tomayko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Computers in Space written by James E. Tomayko and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous visual tour of computer technology used in space flight. The book shows how computers contribute to each phase of the preparation and launch of spacecraft. At each relevant point, the historical background of a specific device or technique is explained and compared to the use of computers in earth-based applications.
Author : T. E. Price
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631952919
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Take Flight written by T. E. Price and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman fleeing her abusive husband must gather her courage—and rely on her faith . . . Hallie has made the decision to leave her abusive husband for good. But Jonathan has no intention of complying. During their separation, Hallie grapples with trusting those closest to her, the gossip-mill of her small town, and her wavering trust in God. Living alone in a secret, secluded cabin in the woods, she is thrust into multiple circumstances where she has to balance her safety with the reality of inescapable encounters with her soon-to-be ex-husband. Then Jonathan discovers Hallie’s whereabouts, forcing her to escape to the city while awaiting the divorce, but her move isn’t the solution—because her safety is still compromised . . . Hallie has to learn to trust God with her safety while leaning on the church body for support. The tantalizing storyline of Take Flight weaves through one “fight-or-flight” scenario after the next, filling Hallie with angst regarding her constant need for escape. Take Flight addresses the ugliness of domestic abuse and the need for support from the church community—and reminds us of God’s trustworthiness in the midst of difficult, sometimes even life-threatening, situations.
Author : Patrick Stakem
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986235150
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Apollo's Computers written by Patrick Stakem and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollo was built in the era of "big iron" computer mainframes. The concept of an onboard computer for space missions was radically new. There was only one place in the world that could design the Apollo Guidance Computers, and that was MIT. It took most of the U.S.'s production of integrated circuits, another radical idea replacing individual vacuum tubes, to build the AGC's. It took 2,000 person-years of independent code review and validation to ensure that they would operate properly. Besides the technical challenges, the Apollo missions were a matter of National Prestige. In the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, President Kennedy said we were going to the Moon and return safely before the end of the (1960's) decade, so we did. The flight computers for the Saturn launch vehicle were an evolution of earlier missile guidance efforts. The massive Saturn-V first stage was built from clustered Jupiter rockets. The earlier and smaller Saturn-I was built of clustered Redstone rockets, which were themselves a derivative of the early German V-2 rockets by the Von Braun Team. The Saturn's upper stages were all new technology, using liquid hydrogen and oxygen. The vehicle had to achieve and maintain a precise trajectory from its launch site in Florida, to lunar orbit, to the lunar surface and back, and then return to Earth. All this took unprecedented computing power. This book is a brief synopsis of the architecture and applications of the Apollo computers. There is a lot of archived material on the topic, and the list of references in this book is a good starting point. The amazing thing is, the first computer on another world was designed and built before computers were commodity items. It worked as planned. Although your phone has more computing power than the entire Saturn vehicle, you shouldn't trust it to get you to the moon and back.
Author : Paul E. Ceruzzi
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262031431
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Limits written by Paul E. Ceruzzi and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the progressive penetration of computing into every aspect of flight technology, from the end of World War II to the present
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030904880X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book An Assessment of Space Shuttle Flight Software Development Processes written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective software is essential to the success and safety of the Space Shuttle, including its crew and its payloads. The on-board software continually monitors and controls critical systems throughout a Space Shuttle flight. At NASA's request, the committee convened to review the agency's flight software development processes and to recommend a number of ways those processes could be improved. This book, the result of the committee's study, evaluates the safety, oversight, and management functions that are implemented currently in the Space Shuttle program to ensure that the software is of the highest quality possible. Numerous recommendations are made regarding safety and management procedures, and a rationale is offered for continuing the Independent Verification and Validation effort that was instituted after the Challenger Accident.
Author : Alexander Nikolaevich Akimov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811963290
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Limiting Modes of Aircraft Flight written by Alexander Nikolaevich Akimov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail a method of direct optimization, which makes it possible to choose the best trajectory of an aircraft in conditions of its limited resource. This can happen in the event of an emergency on board, associated with both a possible equipment failure and external influences, for example, when lightning strikes an aircraft or collides with a moving object. The highlight of this book is the fact that the results presented in it can be applied universally to the choice of the flight path of large and small aircraft, as well as helicopter technology. In addition, they take into account various conditions of aircraft flight, including a possible accident. The methods and algorithms presented here can be used as the basis for the creation of automatic collision avoidance systems, as well as the choice of the best aircraft trajectory for flights in different regions and in different conditions.
Author : Cowley-Millig Productions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732736705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (367 download)
Download or read book World of Computers / Troy's Flying Machine written by Cowley-Millig Productions and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kites NEW!2-in-1 CD-Rom and Big Books for Early Years and Key Stage 1 (P1-4) KS1 CD-Rom with Word and Sentence Level activitiesSupported by 12 low level Non-Fiction / Fiction combined Big Books
Author : Eldon C. Hall
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563471858
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Journey to the Moon written by Eldon C. Hall and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: evolution of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Mr. Hall contends that the development of the Apollo computer supported and motivated the semiconductor industry during a time when integrated circuits were just emerging. This was the period just before the electronics revolution that gave birth to modern computers. In addition, the book recalls the history of computer technology, both hardware and software, and the applications of digital computing to missile guidance systems and manned spacecraft. The book also offers graphics and photos drawn from the Draper Laboratories archives that illustrate the technology and related events during the Apollo project. Written for experts as well as lay persons, Journey to the Moon is the first book of its kind and a must for anyone interested in the history of science and the relevance of computer technology to space exploration.
