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[email protected] (Mary Shafer) writes: |
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>On 4 Apr 1993 20:31:10 -0400, [email protected] (Pat) said: |
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>Pat> In article <[email protected]> |
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>Pat> [email protected] writes: |
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>>Question is can someone give me 10 examples of direct NASA/Space related |
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>>research that helped humanity in general? It will be interesting to see.. |
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>Pat> TANG :-) Mylar I think. I think they also pushed Hi Tech |
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>Pat> Composites for airframes. Look at Fly by Wire. |
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>Swept wings--if you fly in airliners you've reaped the benefits. |
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Didn't one of the early jet fighters have these? |
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I also think the germans did some work on these in WWII. |
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>Winglets. Area ruling. Digital fly by wire. Ride smoothing. |
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A lot of this was also done by the military... |
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>Microwave landing systems. Supercritical wings. General aviation |
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>air foils. |
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Weren't the first microwave landing systems from WWII too? |
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>Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA |
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>[email protected] Of course I don't speak for NASA |
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> "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all." Unknown US fighter pilot |
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Egad! I'm disagreeing with Mary Shafer! |
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Phil Fraering |"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff. |
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[email protected]|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison." Repo Man |
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