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Recommended Additional Readings

Reports, Papers, Articles, and Presentations:

Theodore G. Ayers and James B. Hallissy, “Historical Background and Design Evolution of the Transonic Aircraft Technology Supercritical Wing,” NASA TM-81356 (1981).

Darrell H. Baldwin and Bradford S. Linscott, “The Federal Wind Program at NASA Lewis Research Center,” NASA TM-83480 (1983).

R. Bradford, W.T. Atkins, R.M. Bass, R. Dascher, J. Dunkin, N. Luce, W. Seward, and D. Warren, “Coal Conversion and Synthetic-Fuel Production,” NASA Tech Briefs, vol. 5, No. 1 (Aug. 1, 1980), p. 56.

B.P. Collins, A.L. Haines, and C.J. Wales, “A Concept for a Fuel Efficient Flight Planning Aid for General Aviation,” NASA CR-3533 (1982).

Gerrard Cowan and Caitlin Harrington, “Adding Fuel to the Fire: Energy and Defence,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, Nov. 21, 2008.

D. Daggett, O. Hadaller, R Hendricks, and R. Walther, “Alternative Fuels and Their Potential Impact on Aviation,” NASA TM-2006-214365 (2006).

John H. Del Frate and Gary B. Cosentino, “Recent Flight Test Experience with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,” NASA TM-1998-206546 (1998).

Vance Dippold, III, “CFD Analyses and Jet-Noise Predictions of Chevron Nozzles with Vortex Stabilization,” NASA TM-2008-215150 (2008).

Edwin J. Graber, “Overview of NASA PTA Propfan Flight Test Program,” NASA Lewis [Glenn] Research Center, Nov. 1, 1987, CASI Doc 198.800.06423.

Caitlin Harrington, “USAF Promotes Fuel Alternative,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, Mar. 16, 2007.

C.G. Jay, “Hydrogen Enrichment of Synthetic Fuel,” NASA Tech Briefs, vol. 3, No. 1 (June 1, 1978), NTTC Doc. 197.800.00039.

B.H. Little, D.T. Poland, H.W. Bartel, C.C. Withers, and P.C. Brown, “Propfan Test Assessment (PTA) Final Project Report,” NASA CR-185138 (1989).

Valerie J. Lyons and Arlene S. Levine, “An Overview of NASA’s Contributions to Energy Technology,” NASA AIAA-2008-5641 (Jan. 2009).

Donald R. Mulholland, Loren W. Acker, Harold H. Christenson, and William V. Gough, “Flight Investigation of a Liquid-Hydrogen Fuel System,” RM E57F19a (1957).

A.L. Nagel, W.J. Alford, and J.F. Dugan, “Future Long-Range Transports: Prospects for Improved Fuel Efficiency,” NASA TM-X-72659 (1975).

Palmer C. Putnam, “Wind Power: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” NASA CP-2230 (1982).

N.A. Radovich, D. Dreim, D.A. O’Keefe, L. Linner, S.K. Pathak, J.S. Reaser, D. Richardson, J. Sweers, and F. Conner, “Study for the Optimization of a Transport Aircraft Wing for Maximum Fuel Efficiency,” vol. 1: “Methodology, Criteria, Aeroelastic Model Definition, and Results,” NASA CR-172551 (1985).

Travis L. Turner, Randolph H. Cabell, Roberto J. Cano, and Richard J. Silcox, “Testing of SMA-Enabled Active Chevron Prototypes Under Representative Flow Conditions,” NASA Langley Research Center, Report LAR-17332, Paper 6928-36, CASI Doc. 200.800.14174.

U.S. Federal Energy Administration, “Project Independence Blueprint. Task Force. Report. Solar Energy,” U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service (1974).

U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Aviation’s Effects on the Global Atmosphere Are Potentially Significant and Expected to Grow,” GAO/RCED-00-57 (Feb. 2000).

U.S. National Research Council [Committee on High Speed Research, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems], U.S, Supersonic Aircraft: Assessing NASA’s High Speed Research Program (Washington: NRC, 1997).

Robert D. Wicofski, “Comparison of Alternate Fuel for Aircraft,” NASA TM-80155 (1979).

Books and Monographs:

Joseph R. Chambers, Partners in Freedom: Contributions of the Langley Research Center to U.S. Military Aircraft of the 1990s, SP-2000-4519 (Washington: NASA, 2000).

Erick M. Conway, High Speed Dreams (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

Virginia P. Dawson, Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology, SP-4306 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1991).

Jeffrey Ethell, Fuel Economy in Aviation, NASA SP-462 (1983).

Alexander Laufer, et al., Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects, NASA History Series, NASA SP-2005-4111, (Washington, DC: NASA, 2005).

Anita Liang, Emerging Fuel Cell Developments at NASA for Aircraft Applications, (Cleveland: NASA Glenn Research Center, 2003).

Pamela Mack, ed., From Engineering Science to Big Science, NASA SP-4219 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1998).

Palmer C. Putnam, Power from the Wind (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1948).

Robert W. Righter, Wind Energy in America: A History (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996).

John L. Sloop, Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, NASA SP-4404 (Washington. DC: NASA, 1978).