Human Spaceflight Operations

Human Spaceflight Operations

Author: Gregory Errol Chamitoff

Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Incorporated

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781624103995

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The purpose of this book is to share collective experience on human spaceflight operations. For the many authors, this is nothing less than a work of passion. They are sharing their life's work with the goal of passing on their experience to the next generation of space engineers, designers, operators, and crew.


Helicopter Flight Dynamics

Helicopter Flight Dynamics

Author: Gareth D. Padfield

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 111940102X

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The Book The behaviour of helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft is so complex that understanding the physical mechanisms at work in trim, stability and response, and thus the prediction of Flying Qualities, requires a framework of analytical and numerical modelling and simulation. Good Flying Qualities are vital for ensuring that mission performance is achievable with safety and, in the first and second editions of Helicopter Flight Dynamics, a comprehensive treatment of design criteria was presented, relating to both normal and degraded Flying Qualities. Fully embracing the consequences of Degraded Flying Qualities during the design phase will contribute positively to safety. In this third edition, two new Chapters are included. Chapter 9 takes the reader on a journey from the origins of the story of Flying Qualities, tracing key contributions to the developing maturity and to the current position. Chapter 10 provides a comprehensive treatment of the Flight Dynamics of tiltrotor aircraft; informed by research activities and the limited data on operational aircraft. Many of the unique behavioural characteristics of tiltrotors are revealed for the first time in this book. The accurate prediction and assessment of Flying Qualities draws on the modelling and simulation discipline on the one hand and testing practice on the other. Checking predictions in flight requires clearly defined mission tasks, derived from realistic performance requirements. High fidelity simulations also form the basis for the design of stability and control augmentation systems, essential for conferring Level 1 Flying Qualities. The integrated description of flight dynamic modelling, simulation and flying qualities of rotorcraft forms the subject of this book, which will be of interest to engineers practising and honing their skills in research laboratories, academia and manufacturing industries, test pilots and flight test engineers, and as a reference for graduate and postgraduate students in aerospace engineering.


International Lamp Coding System (ILCOS)

International Lamp Coding System (ILCOS)

Author: British Standards Institute Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2010-07-31

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780580680519

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Lamps, Electric lamps, Codes, Designations, Tungsten lamps, Filament lamps, Tungsten-halogen lamps, Fluorescent lamps, Sodium-vapour lamps, Mercury-vapour lamps, Halide lamps, Light-emitting devices, Dimensions, Diameter, Length, Classification systems, Lighting equipment, Rated voltage


Men and Bears

Men and Bears

Author: AA.VV.

Publisher: Accademia University Press

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 8831978780

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The time of Carnival represents a "wild" time at the end of winter and pointing to the beginning of a new season. It is characterized by the irruption of border figures, animal masks, characters which recall the world of the dead and which bring within themselves the germ of a vital force, of the energy that produces the reawakening of nature and announces the growth and fertility of the new crops. This wild domain shows itself under the shapes of a contiguity between human and animal: the costumes, the masks, refer to a world in which the characteristics of the human and those of the animal are fused and intertwined. Among these figures, in particular, emerge those of the Wild Man, the human being who takes on animal-like attributes and aspects, and of the Bear, the animal that, more than all the others, gets as close as possible to the human and seems to reflect a deformed image of it. Such symbolic images come from far off times and places to tell a story that belongs to our common origins. The bear assumes attributes and functions alike in very different cultural contexts, such as the Sámi of Finland or North-American hunter-gatherers, and represents a boundary between the world of nature and the human world, between the domain of animals and the difficult construction of humanity: a process continued for centuries, perhaps millennia, and which cannot still be said complete.


A Lonely Road

A Lonely Road

Author: AA.VV.

Publisher: Accademia University Press

Published: 2020-01-21

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 8831978764

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Nowadays solitude is everywhere. Increasingly similar to monads, we are losing the ability to build solid connections between us, and to convert our private experience into public matter. What is becoming lost is an «art of translation», the capacity to build bridges between private problems and troubles and common causes, something that may connect people and make them act in accord: that is, politics as an art to «bring us together».The goal of this book is to question, in many different ways, the link between solitude and politics. It is the result of a collective work of young researchers, trying to understand, and to fight, their own solitude and loneliness within the academia. It offers a preliminary interdisciplinary discussion aiming to forge the tools to grasp this strange oxymoron, to better comprehend this simultaneously individual and collective condition.


Göttinger Monograph N

Göttinger Monograph N

Author: Berend van der

Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781624102721

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Göttinger Monograph N offers an unparalleled view into the early days of helicopter development, where Germany initially led technical innovation. Following World War II, the British Ministry of Supply ordered the German aeronautical research establishments in Göttingen (AVA) and Braunschweig (DFL) to summarize aeronautical research results obtained from 1939 to 1945 in a series of monographs. Göttinger Monograph N was the only of these documents to describe the development, of rotary-wing aircraft. Originally prepared under the direction of Albert Betz by Gerhard Sissingh and O.H. Nagel, the German-language document, now publicly available for the first time entirely in English, has been edited and translated by Berend G. van der Wall. Göttinger Monograph N describes German helicopter and autogyro development, highlighting the involvement of Henrich Focke, Anton Flettner, Friedrich von Doblhoff, and others who brought rotorcraft into series production maturity. It features aircraft including the Fw-61, the Fa-223, the Fa-230, the Fl-339, and more. It explores such areas as testing and accidents, Glauert-Lock-Wheatley's rotary-wing theory, performance investigations, and flying qualities. This unique historical and scientific contribution belongs on the shelf of anyone who seeks to understand the early engineering concepts that underlay the development of rotary-wing aircraft. Book jacket.


Learning through Others

Learning through Others

Author: Emiliano Loria

Publisher: Accademia University Press

Published: 2020-05-29

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 8831978578

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The theory of natural pedagogy provides a model of social learning based on the direct communicative ostensive relation and aimed to the transfer of generic cultural knowledge. The pedagogical transmission of information originates from an explicit manifestation of teaching made by knowledgeable adults, who are naturally inclined to manifestly provide their cultural baggage to naïve conspecifics. The domain of transferable knowledge encompasses artifact functions, novel means actions, first words, gestural symbols, social practices, and rituals. This teaching process can be fast and efficient in virtue of a natural inclination possessed by infants to seek information and decode signals of ostensive communication. In this sense, the natural pedagogy represents, as the two proponents – György Gergey and Gergely Csibra – claim, «a communicative system of mutual design specialized for the fast and efficient transfer of new and relevant cultural knowledge from knowledgeable to ignorant conspecifics». This book suggests that natural pedagogy utilises early belief attribution competences, which are employed by infants in a variety of contexts to approach and navigate the social world. Therefore, the natural pedagogy, in cooperation with the early mindreading system, may represent one of the most efficient adaptive strategies to firmly create that deep wittgensteinian «nest of propositions» which build cultural shared beliefs structures to be relied upon and followed.


Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference Held August, 1997 at New Orleans, Louisiana

Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference Held August, 1997 at New Orleans, Louisiana

Author: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 838

ISBN-13:

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This volume is the proceedings of the Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, which took place in New Orleans, August 1997. It focuses on the technical progress, issues and challenges associated with atmospheric flight. Technical papers address stability and control, flying qualities (including one session dedicated to pilot-induced oscillations), unsteady and vortex aerodynamics, system and parameter identification, aircraft flight dynamic re-entry and aero assist technologies, and reusable launch vehicles.


The nEU-Med project: Vetricella, an Early Medieval royal property on Tuscany’s Mediterranean

The nEU-Med project: Vetricella, an Early Medieval royal property on Tuscany’s Mediterranean

Author: Giovanna Bianchi

Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 8878149888

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The nEU-Med project is part of the Horizon 2020 programme, in the ERC Advanced project category. It began in October 2015 and the University of Siena is the host institution of the project. The project is focussed upon two Tuscan riverine corridors leading from the Gulf of Follonica in the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Colline Metallifere. It aims to document and analyze the form and timeframe of economic growth in this part of the Mediterranean, which took place between the 7th and the 12thc. Central to this is an understanding of the processes of change in human settlements, in the natural and farming landscapes in relation to the exploitation of resources, and in the implementation of differing political strategies. This volume presents the multi-disciplinary research focussed upon the key site of the project, Vetricella, and its territory. Vetricella is thought to be the site of Valli, a royal property in the Tuscan march. It is the only Early Medieval property to be extensively studied in Italy. Located on Italy’s Tyrrhenian coast, the archaeology and history of this site provide new insights on estate management, metal production and wider Mediterranean relations in the later first millennium. Apart from reports on the archaeology, the finds from excavations and environmental studies, three essays consider the wider European historical and archaeological context of Vetricella. Future monographs will feature studies by members of the project team on aspects of Vetricella, its finds and territory.