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Golf ball, 85 Maximum range, 189–191
Gossamer Albatross, 67 ME-262, 132, 224
Ground effect, 51 Mean camber line, 4
Guggenheim, Daniel, 71 Mean chord, 5
Momentum, 27, 44, 122
“Hershey Bar” wing, 67
High-lift devices, 87–93 Neutral point, 100–104
High-speed flight: Newton’s laws, 19, 118
hypersonic, 150, 165–166 first law, 19, 52
lift, 151 second law, 20, 26
supersonic, 150 third law, 19, 52
transonic, 150, 157–160 Newton, Sir Isaac, 19, 166
Horizontal stabilizer, 1, 100–104, Northrop, John, 105
215
Hypersonic testing, 220 P-47, 69
P-51, 92
Ice on wing, 81–82 P-80, 224
glaze ice, 81 Pathfinder, 187
mixed ice, 81 Peltier, Therese, 12
rime ice, 81 Penny-planes, 35
Indicated airspeed, 176 Phugoid motion, 110
Insect flight, 51 Piper Cherokee, 67
Piston engines, 128
Jet engine, 131 Pitch, 2, 5, 103
efficiency, 140 Pitot tube, 11–12, 177
power, 140 Planform, 61
thrust, 121 Power, 35, 45, 120
Johnston, “Tex,” 222 engine, 120, 122
induced, 36, 43, 192
Kinetic energy, 9, 36, 44, 122, 198 parasitic, 36–37, 43
Kutta-Joukowski condition, 23 propulsive, 120, 122, 125, 140
required, 120, 224
Landing, 197–199, 225 total, 36
Landing gear, 3 wasted, 120, 140
Langley, Samuel, 39, 42 Power curve, 38
Leading edge, 3, 59 Power required data, 224
Lift, 23–24, 29, 35, 181 Pressure, 9
Lift-to-drag ratio (L/D), 173–174 dynamic pressure, 11
Lilienthal, Otto, 223 static pressure, 11
Lindbergh, Charles, 54, 88, 111 total pressure, 10, 38
Load factor, 6, 192 Pressure taps, 212
Long-EZ, 79, 83 Pressure transducer, 212
Principle of equal transit times, 15
Mach 1 drag rise, 160 Propellers, 45, 123, 143
Mach number, 8, 149, 156, 158 constant-speed, 127
Maneuvering speed, 195–196 envelope of maximum efficiency,
Manometer, 205 128
