| Aeronautic and astronautic engineering |
| Flight captures human imagination. Aeronautics and astronautics are among the most popular of engineering branches with a large literature, to which NASA has contributed much. Here are a few less well-known references. |
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History Anderson, J. D. 1997.
A History of Aerodynamics and its Impact on Flying Machines.
New York: Cambridge University Press. Battin, R. H. 2002.
Some funny things happened on the way to the moon.
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 25: 1-7. Draper, C. S. 1981.
Origins of inertial navigation.
AIAA Journal of Guidance and Control, 4: 339-63. Gai, E. 1996. Guidance,
navigation, and control from instrumentation to information management.
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 19:
10-14. Galison, P. and Roland,
A. eds. 2000. Atmospheric
Flight in the Twentieth Century.
Dordrecht: Kluwer. Hallion, R. P. 1972.
Supersonic Flight. London:
Brassey’s. Hansen, J. R. 1987.
Engineer in charge: a history of Langley Aeronautical
Laboratory, 1917-1958. Washington,
DC: NASA. IEEE Aerospace and
Electronic Systems Magazine, Jubilee Issue,
October 2000, contains many historic and visionary papers. Kelly, Thomas J. 2001. Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press. McRur, D. and Graham, D. 1981. Fifty years of flight control: triumphs and pitfalls of the
systems approach. AIAA
Journal of Guidance and Control, 4: 353-62. Murman, E. M., et al. 2002. Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative. Palgrave. Parkinson, B. W. 1997.
Origin, evolution, and future of satellite navigation.
AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 20:
11-25. Schmidt, S. F. 1981.
The Kalman filter: its recognition and development for aerospace
applications. Journal of
Guidance and Control, 4: 4-8. Vincenti, W. G. 1990.
What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies
from Aeronautical History. Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins Press. Whittle, F. 1953. Jet: The Story of a Pioneer. London: Frederick Muller. Aircraft
development Aronstein, D. C. and Piccirillo,
A. C. 1997. Have Blue and the
F-117A. Reston, VA: AIAA. Battershell, A. L. 1999.
The DoD C-17 Versus the Boeing 777.
Washington, DC: National Defense University. Buus, H., McLees, R, Orgun, M,
Pasztor, E, and Schultz, L. 1997. 777
fight controls validation process. IEEE
Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 33: 656-66. Condit, P. M. 1994.
Focusing on the customer: How Boeing Does it.
Research Technology Management,
37(1): 33-7. Norris, G. 1995.
Boeing’s seventh wonder. IEEE
Spectrum, 32(10): 20-3. O’Lone, R. G., ed. 1991.
Boeing 777 transport: a risky development approach.
Special section, Aviation Week & Space Technology, June 3,
134(22): 34-58. Pelton, S. L. and Scarbrough, K.
D. 1997. Boeing systems engineering
experiences from the 777 AIMS program. IEEE
Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 33: 642-8. Proctor, P. ed. 1994.
Boeing 777 rollout. Special
section, Aviation Week & Space Technology, April 11, 140(5): 37-42. Rich, B. R. and Janos, L. 1994.
Skunk Works. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co. Sabbagh, K. 1995.
21st Century Jet: The Making of the Boeing 777.
London: Macmillan. Steiner, J. E. 1978.
Case Study in Aircraft Design: The Boeing 727.
Reston, VA: AIAA. Spaceflight Battin, R. H. 1982. Space
and guidance evolution – a personal narrative. AIAA Journal of Guidance and
Control, 5: 97-110. Bell, T. E. and Esch, K. 1987. The fatal flaws in flight 51-2. IEEE Spectrum (2): 36-51. Bilstein, R. E. 1996. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles. Washington DC: NASA. Lawler,
A. 2000. “Faster, cheaper,
better” on trial. Science,
288: 32-4. Murray, C. and Cox, C. B. 1989.
Apollo: The Race to the Moon.
New York: Simon & Schuster. Stix, G. 1988.
Moon lander. IEEE Spectrum 25: 76-82. Winter, F. H. 1990. Rockets into Space. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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