10-14-1947 First Supersonic Flight
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Aerospace Engineering Engineering Mechanics Mechanical Engineering |
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Community - Blog |
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Alice M. Agogino |
| Description: | The Engineering Pathway's blog for October 14. Excerpt: "Today in History - October 14, 1947 - First supersonic flight. The research program that led to this accomplishment started in 1946 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) [now National Aeronautics and Space Administration], the Army Air Forces, and Bell Aircraft Inc. They built two XS-1 experimental research aircraft to conduct pioneering tests at what is now the Edwards Air Force Base in California. The goal of the testing was to obtain flight data on conditions in the transonic speeds. Chuck Yeager, a WW II fighter pilot, was the XS-1 pilot who became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. It took another two decades before supersonic flight went commercial. This happened on December 31, 1968 when The Russian TU-144 became the first commercial supersonic airliner flown. Building on their supersonic military jets, the Russians developed the first supersonic commercial airliner called the Tupolev 144. Later the U.K. developed the Concorde supersonic passenger jet. Athough successful as a collaborative technical effort, it did not survive the marketplace; it was too expensive to maintain, demand was not high enough at the prices required and the public put many constraints on flight paths due to the noise pollution of the sonic boom." |
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| Keywords: | supersonic supersonic flight XS-1 |
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"Today in History" Blog of the Engineering Pathway Digital Library |
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Could be used to connect history of technology to current technologies and theory. |
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Easy |
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| Publication Date: | October 2008 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.k-grayengineeringeducation.com/blog/index.php/2012/10/ |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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