Author: Herman D. Froning Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9783659863202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Author: SpaceBusiness.com
Author: Bill YenneAlexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power
Author: James K. LibbeyPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612341799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Today, air power is a vital component of the U.S. armed forces. James Libbey, in Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power, highlights the contributions of an aviation pioneer who made much of it possible. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire's most decorated combat naval pilot. While serving as a naval attache in the United States in 1918, de Seversky elected to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and offered his services as a pilot and consulting engineer to the U.S. War Department. He proved inventive both in the technology of advanced military aircraft and in the strategy of exercising air power. He worked for famed aviation advocate Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, who encouraged the naturalized citizen to patent his inventions, such as an in-flight refueling system and a gyroscopically synchronized bombsight. His creative spirit then spurred him to design and manufacture advanced military aircraft. When World War II broke out in Europe, de Seversky became America's best-known philosopher, prophet, and advocate for air power, even serving as an adviser to the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. The highlight of his life occurred in 1970 when the Aviation Hall of Fame enshrined de Seversky for "his achievements as a pilot, aeronautical engineer, inventor, industrialist, author, strategist, consultant, and scientific advances in aircraft design and aerospace technology." This book will appeal to readers with a special interest in military history and to anyone who wants to learn more about American air power's most important figures.
Field Propulsion Physics and Intergalactic Exploration
Author: Yoshinari MinamiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781536125542
Category : Space vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Due to the lack of space propulsion technology and space navigation technology that can accelerate at high speeds in a short time, it is well-known that mankind does not currently have technology to realize a journey to other star systems. This book explains galaxy exploration by combining field propulsion based on the physical structure of space-time and a new navigation theory. A field propulsion system is propelled without mass expulsion. The propulsive force as a pressure thrust arises from the interaction of space-time around the spaceship itself; this causes the spaceship to propel against the space-time structure. Firstly, from the physical and engineering point of view, the propulsion principle and propulsion theory of field propulsion are explained. As a typical example of field propulsion, the space drive propulsion system includes its theory, the registered patent, and the latest development from the viewpoint of cosmology and astrophysics. Secondly, for galaxy exploration, navigation technology such as a wormhole that bypasses the wall of light speed, not propulsion technology, is indispensable. A method for overcoming the light barrier (the seeming wall-of-light in 4-D space-time), or a hyperspace navigation theory to jump the light-barrier, is explained. Combining the space propulsion system and the navigation system makes it possible to perform a realistic galaxy exploration.The reader will not only get a good introduction to the science and technology of field power and propulsion physics, but also to the possibility of interstellar navigation.
A Superfluid Universe
Author: Kerson HuangPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813148489
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This interesting book provides the physical and mathematical background for a theory describing the universe as a quantum superfluid, and how dark energy and dark matter arise. Presenting a novel theory spanning many different fields in physics, the key concepts in each field are introduced.The reader is only expected to know the rudiments of condensed matter physics, quantum field theory and general relativity to explore this fascinating new model of dark matter and dark energy as facets of a cosmic superfluid.
Faster Than Light
Author: H. David Froning, Jr.Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948803232
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
An amazing book on faster than light flight! H. David Froning, a 30-year veteran engineer who worked on several designs for future space travel propulsion, gives us this exceptional compilation of his discoveries, struggles and experiences in the realm of faster than light space travel. Central to the concept of faster than light travel is that the vacuum of space itself (the spacetime metric) can be utilized in propulsion systems. “Engineering the vacuum,” as this is called, involves discovering how space can be altered to provide energy/thrust for future spacecraft. Packed with diagrams, some of which show how, as a starship accelerates away from Earth, it disappears and reappears in only seconds. But during these seconds of disappearance, the ship, in effect, leaps high above space-time and over stupendous distances to reach speeds that are billions of times greater than light-speed. Lots of great material on quantum vacuum power, anti-gravity propulsion effects, the velocity of light in spacetime altered regions, effective mass in spacetime-altered regions, warp drives, and tons more!
Author: Arnold S. LevineTempest - the Transition
Author: Niels VandammePublisher: Niels Vandamme
ISBN: 1419684906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
When Ludwig Adler perishes in a fire, he leaves his yearling daughter Sara as the sole survivor of the tragedy. However, his recovered body is cryonically preserved, and many decades later, Sara reanimates her long-dead father - but when he finally rises from his icy grave, he wakes to a new world, finding it on the eve of its greatest transition: the universe stands upon the brink of being transformed beyond recognition, when the most powerful force in the cosmos is to be unleashed upon it in a magnificent metamorphosis. Soon, the world is to be warped forever in a tempest of technology: the Singularity.But as it impends, the world begins to break apart: as everything changes, society is split into two strongly opposed factions, soon to confront one other in the greatest war of history; when, in a clash between the conservative humans and the progressive transhumans, the most incongruous ideologies come into a violent collision.
Facing the Heat Barrier
Author: T. A. HeppenheimerPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160831553
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Hypersonics is the study of flight at speeds where aerodynamic heating dominates the physics of the problem. It is an engineering science with close links to supersonics and engine design. Within this field, many of the most important results have been experimental. The principal facilities have been wind tunnels and related devices, which have produced flows with speeds up to orbital velocity. Why is this important? Hypersonics has had two major applications. The first has been to provide thermal protection during atmospheric reentry. Success in this enterprise has supported ballistic-missile nose cones, has returned strategic reconnaissance photos from orbit and astronauts from the Moon, and has even dropped an instrument package into the atmosphere of Jupiter. The second application has involved high-speed propulsion and has sought to develop the scramjet as an advanced airbreathing ramjet. Atmospheric entry today is fully mature as an engineering discipline, but work with its applications continues to reach for new achievements. Studies of scramjets still seek full success, in which such engines can accelerate a vehicle without the use of rockets. Hence, there is much to do in this area as well.
