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Title: The Wright Brothers, Flight Test and NASA A Centennial of Flight Story 1903 - 2003


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The Wright Brothers,Flight Test
andNASAA Centennial of Flight Story1903 -
2003
2
The Wright Brothers
  • Orville and Wilbur
  • Dayton, Ohio
  • Wright Cycle Company
  • Brain synchronicity
  • Systematic in their experimental approach

3
The Wright Brothers
  • Read the research
  • Talked with colleagues
  • Determined problems to be solved
  • Delineated a process for solving problems safely

4
The Wright Brothers
  • Problems to be solved
  • Balance during flight a way to safely control
    the airplanes motion
  • An engine to move it through the air
  • Wings needed to lift an airplane into the air

5
The Wright Brothers
  • Problem
  • Balance during flight a way to safely
    control the airplanes motion

6
The Wright Brothers
  • Balance Solutions
  • Horizontal rudder
  • Wingwarping
  • Hip cradle

7
The Wright Brothers
  • Problem
  • An engine to move it through the air
  • Lightweight
  • Minimal vibration
  • Powerful enough to turn the propellers

8
The Wright Brothers
  • Engine Solutions
  • Small, powerful, gas engine
  • Powered 2 propellers

9
The Wright Brothers
  • Problem
  • Wings needed to lift airplane into the air
  • Determine the length-to-width ratio
  • Proper amount of camber
  • Most efficient angle of attack
  • The center of pressure

10
The Wright Brothers
  • Wing Solutions
  • Throw out previous tables and theories
  • Devise a better method of testing wings
  • Use new test results to design a better wing

11
Wright Brothers
  • The Wright Brothers Results
  • A set of highly accurate tables that predicted in
    advance the performance of an aircrafts wings
  • Changes in their aircraft design
  • Biggest glider yet
  • Longer wings
  • Narrower wings
  • Tail section

12
Flight Test
  • What is Flight Test?

13
Flight Test
  • Early Flight Test Pilots
  • Tower Jumpers
  • Oliver of Malmesbury
  • Giovanni Dante
  • Marquis de Bocqueville

14
Flight Test
  • Flight Test Pilots who were Contemporaries of the
    Wright Brothers
  • Cayley
  • Otto Lilienthal
  • Octave Chanute and his young test pilots

15
Flight Test
  • Flight Test Pilots who were Contemporaries of the
    Wright Brothers
  • Lawrence Hargrave
  • Percy Pilcher
  • Professor John

16
Flight Test
  • Wright Brothers as Flight Test Pilots
  • Early tests used kite models
  • Performed in Dayton, Ohio

17
Flight Test
  • Wright Brothers as Flight Test Pilots
  • Birds helped flight test
  • Gave idea for wing-warping
  • Tested first on bi-winged kite

18
Flight Test
  • Wright Brothers as Flight Test Pilots
  • Needed location for piloted flight tests
  • Researched for best place
  • US National Weather Service
  • Outer Banks of North Carolina

19
Flight Test
  • Wright Brothers as Flight Test Pilots
  • 1901 - 1902
  • Tested gliders
  • First flown pilotless (like kites)
  • Then piloted

20
Flight Test
  • Wright Brothers as Flight Test Pilots
  • 1903
  • Flight testing power-driven aircraft
  • Ran ground tests on engine first
  • Made changes based upon ground tests
  • Then successfully flight tested

21
Flight Test
  • Later Flight Test Pilots
  • Hanna Reitsch
  • Charles Lindberg

22
Flight Test
  • Flight Test progresses

23
Flight Test
  • NACA
  • National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

24
Flight Test
  • NACA grows
  • Wind tunnel complex built at Ames
  • Tunnels get larger
  • Airspeeds get faster
  • Testing becomes more specialized

25
Flight Test
  • Muroc
  • Early flight tests
  • Chalmers Goodlin
  • Chuck Yeager

26
NASA
  • NACA evolves into NASA

27
NASA
  • Ames Research Center
  • Early Flight Test
  • Wind Tunnels
  • Kuiper
  • XV-15
  • Present testing
  • Rotorcraft
  • Computer simulations

28
NASA
  • Dryden Flight Research Center
  • Early Flight Test
  • Scott Crossfield
  • X-15
  • Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
  • Present testing
  • ERAST
  • Hyper-X

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NASA
  • Flight Test in the Future
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