Reports, Papers, Articles, and Presentations:
Marvin Abramovitz, Stanley F. Schmidt, and Rudolph D. Van Dyke, Jr., “Investigation of the Use of a Stick Force Proportional to Pitching Acceleration for Normal-Acceleration Warning,” NACA RM-A53E21 (1953).
James J. Adams and James B. Whitten, “Tests of a Centering Spring Used as an Artificial Feel Device on the Elevator of a Fighter Airplane,” NACA RM-L52G16 (1952).
William J. Alford, Jr., and Thomas B. Pasteur, Jr., “The Effects of Changes in Aspect Ratio and Tail Height on the Longitudinal Stability Characteristics at High Subsonic Speeds of a Model with a Wing Having 32.6° Sweepback,” NACA RM-L53L09 (1953).
William J. Alford, Jr., and William P. Henderson, “An Exploratory Investigation of Variable-Wing-Sweep Airplane Configurations,” NASA TM-X-142 (1959).
William J. Alford, Jr., Arvo A. Luoma, and William P. Henderson, “Wind-Tunnel Studies at Subsonic and Transonic Speeds of a Multiple-Mission Variable-Wing-Sweep Airplane Configuration,” NASA TM-X-206 (1959).
H. Julian Allen and A.J. Eggers, Jr., “A Study of the Motion and Aerodynamic Heating of Ballistic Missiles Entering the Earth’s Atmosphere at High Supersonic Speeds,” NACA TR-1381 (1953).
Ames Research Center staff, “Collected Works of Robert T. Jones,” NASA TM-X-3334 (1976).
Raymond F. Anderson, “Determination of the Characteristics of Tapered Wings,” NACA Report No. 572 (1936).
William E. Andrews, Thomas R. Sisk, and Robert W. Darville, “Longitudinal Stability Characteristics of the Convair YF-102 Airplane Determined from Flight Tests,” NACA RM-H56I17 (1956).
Johnny G. Armstrong, “Flight Planning and Conduct of the X-24B Research Aircraft Flight Test Program,” Air Force Flight Test Center TR-76-11 (1977).
Theodore G. Ayers and James B. Hallissy, “Historical Background and Design Evolution of the Transonic Aircraft Technology Supercritical Wing,” NASA TM-81356 (1981).
Donald D. Baals, Thomas A. Toll, and Owen G. Morris, “Airplane Configurations for Cruise at a Mach Number of 3,” NACA RM-L58E14a (1958).
Donald D. Baals, A. Warner Robins, and Roy V. Harris, Jr., “Aerodynamic Design Integration of Supersonic Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 68-1018 (1968).
De E. Beeler, Donald R. Bellman, and John H. Griffith, “Flight Determination of the Effects of Wing Vortex Generators on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Douglas D-558-I Airplane,” NACA RM-L51A23 (1951).
Morgan M. Blair, “Evolution of the F-86,” AIAA Paper 80-3039 (1980).
Jack D. Brewer and Jacob H. Lichtenstein, “Effect of Horizontal Tail on Low-Speed Static Lateral Stability Characteristics of a Model Having 45° Sweptback Wing and Tail Surfaces,” NACA TN-2010 (1950).
R. Porter Brown, Robert G. Chilton, and James B. Whitten, “Flight Investigation of a Mechanical Feel Device in an Irreversible Elevator Control System of a Large Airplane,” NACA Report No. 1101 (1952).
Adolf Busemann, “Aerodynamische Auftrieb bei Überschallgeschwindigkeit,” Luftfahrtforschung, vol. 12, No. 6 (Oct. 3, 1935).
Adolf Busemann, “Compressible Flow in the Thirties,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 3 (1971).
John P. Campbell and Hubert M. Drake, “Investigation of Stability and Control Characteristics of an Airplane Model with Skewed Wing in the Langley Free-Flight Tunnel,” NACA TN-1208 (May 1947).
George E. Cooper and Robert C. Innis, “Effect of Area-Suction-Type Boundary-Layer Control on the Landing-Approach Characteristics of a 35° Swept-Wing Fighter,” NACA RM-A55K14 (1957).
R.M. Cross, “Characteristics of a Triangular-Winged Aircraft: 2: Stability and Control,” in NACA, Conference on Aerodynamic Problems of Transonic Airplane Design (1947).
Richard E. Day and Donald Reisert, “Flight Behavior of the X-2 Research Airplane to a Mach Number of 3.20 and a Geometric Altitude of 126,200 Feet,” NACA TM-X-137 (1959).
John P. Decker and Peter F. Jacobs, “Stability and Performance Characteristics of a Fixed Arrow Wing Supersonic Transport Configuration (SCAT 15F-9898) at Mach Numbers from 0.60 to 1.20,” NASA TM-78726 (1978).
Hubert M. Drake and John R. Carden, “Elevator-Stabilizer Effectiveness and Trim of the X-1 Airplane to a Mach Number of 1.06,” NACA RM-L50G20 (1950).
Hubert M. Drake and Wendell H. Stillwell, “Behavior of the Bell X-1A Research Airplane During Exploratory Flights at Mach Numbers Near 2.0 and at Extreme Altitude,” NACA RM-H55G25 (1955).
Hubert M. Drake, Thomas W. Finch, and James R. Peele, “Flight Measurements of Directional Stability to a Mach Number of 1.48 for an Airplane Tested with Three Different Vertical Tail Configurations,” NACA RM-H55G26 (1955).
Alfred C. Draper, Melvin L. Buck, and William H. Goesch, “A Delta Shuttle Orbiter.” Astronautics & Aeronautics, vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan. 1971).
Cornelius Driver, M. Leroy Spearman, and William A. Corlett, “Aerodynamic Characteristics at Mach Numbers From 1.61 to 2.86 of a Supersonic Transport Model With a Blended Wing-Body, Variable-Sweep Auxiliary Wing Panels, Outboard Tail Surfaces, and a Design Mach Number of 2.2,” NASA TM-X-817 (1963).
Alfred J. Eggers, Jr., and Clarence A. Syvertson, “Aircraft Configurations Developing High Lift-Drag Ratios at High Supersonic Speeds,” NACA RM-A55L05 (1956).
Carlo Ferrari, “Recalling the Vth Volta Congress: High Speeds in Aviation,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 28 (1996).
Jack Fischel and Jack Nugent, “Flight Determination of the Longitudinal Stability in Accelerated Maneuvers at Transonic Speeds for the Douglas D-558-II Research Airplane Including the Effects of an Outboard Wing Fence,” NACA RM-L53A16 (1953).
Jack Fischel, “Effect of Wing Slats and Inboard Wing Fences on the Longitudinal Stability Characteristics of the Douglas D-558-II Research Airplane in Accelerated Maneuvers at Subsonic and Transonic Speeds,” NACA RM-L53L16 (1954).
Jack Fischel and Cyril D. Brunn, “Longitudinal Stability Characteristics in Accelerated Maneuvers at Subsonic and Transonic Speeds of the Douglas D-558-II Research Airplane Equipped with a Leading-Edge Wing Chord-Extension,” NACA RM-H54H16 (1954).
Jack Fischel and Donald Reisert, “Effect of Several Wing Modifications on the Subsonic and Transonic Longitudinal Handling Qualities of the Douglas D-558-II Research Airplane,” NACA RM-H56C30 (1956).
Gerald V. Foster and Odell A. Morris, “Aerodynamic Characteristics in Pitch at a Mach Number of 1.97 of Two Variable-Wing-Sweep V/STOL Configurations with Outboard Wing Panels Swept Back 75°,” NASA TM-X-322 (1960).
Bernard Göthert, “High-Speed Measurements on a Swept-Back Wing (Sweepback Angle φ = 35°),” NACA TM-1102 (1947).
Charles F. Hall and John C. Heitmeyer, “Aerodynamic Study of a Wing-Fuselage Combination Employing a Wing Swept Back 63°—Characteristics at Supersonic Speeds of a Model with the Wing Twisted and Cambered for Uniform Load,” NACA RM-A9J24 (1950).
Charles F. Hall, “Lift, Drag, and Pitching Moment of Low-Aspect Ratio Wings at Subsonic and Supersonic Speeds,” NACA RM-A53A30 (1953).
Richard P. Hallion, “Convair’s Delta Alpha,” Air Enthusiast Quarterly, No. 2 (1976).
Richard P. Hallion, “Lippisch Gluhareff, and Jones: The Emergence of the Delta Planform and the Origins of the Sweptwing in the United States,” Aerospace Historian, vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar. 1979).
Robert G. Hoey and Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, USAF, “ARDC F-104A Stability and Control,” AFFTC TR-58-14 (1958).
Capt. Slayton L. Johns, USAF, and Capt. James W. Wood, USAF, “ARDC F-104A Stability and Control with External Stores,” AFFTC TR-58-14 Addendum 1 (July 1959).
Robert T. Jones, “Properties of Low-Aspect-Ratio Pointed Wings at Speeds Below and Above the Speed of Sound,” NACA TN-1032 (1946).
Robert T. Jones, “Wing Planforms for High-Speed Flight,” NACA TN-1033 (1946).
Robert T. Jones, “Characteristics of a Configuration with a Large Angle of Sweepback,” in NACA, Conference on Aerodynamic Problems of Transonic Airplane Design (1947).
Harold F. Kleckner, “Preliminary Flight Research on an All-Movable Horizontal Tail as a Longitudinal Control for Flight at High Mach Numbers,” NACA ARR-L5C08 (March 1945).
Harold F. Kleckner, “Flight Tests of an All-Movable Horizontal Tail with Geared Unbalancing Tabs on the Curtiss XP-42 Airplane,” NACA TN-1139 (1946).
Robert W. Kress, “Variable Sweep Wing Design,” AIAA Paper No. 83-1051 (1983).
1st Lt. David C. Leisy and Capt. Hugh P. Hunerwadel, “ARDC F-100D Category II Performance Stability and Control Tests,” AFFTC TR-58-27 (1958).
Jacob H. Lichtenstein, “Experimental Determination of the Effect of Horizontal-Tail Size, Tail Length, and Vertical Location on Low-Speed Static Longitudinal Stability and Damping in Pitch of a Model Having 45° Sweptback Wing and Tail Surfaces,” NACA Report 1096 (1952).
Robert H. Liebeck, “Design of the Blended Wing Body Subsonic Transport,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan.–Feb. 2004). pp. 10–25.
Robert H. Liebeck, Mark A. Page, and Blaine K. Rawdon, “Blended-Wing-Body Subsonic Commercial Transport,” AIAA Paper 98-0438 (1998).
Robert H. Liebeck, Mark A. Page, Blaine K. Rawdon, Paul W. Scott, and Robert A. Wright, “Concepts for Advanced Subsonic Transports,” NASA CR-4624 (1994).
Lindsay J. Lina, Garland J. Morris, and Robert A. Champine, “Flight Investigation of Factors Affecting the Choice of Minimum Approach Speed for Carrier-Type Landings of a Swept-Wing Jet Fighter Airplane,” NACA RM-L57F13 (1957).
Alexander Lippisch, “Recent Tests of Tailless Airplanes,” NACA TM-564 (1930), a NACA translation of his article “Les nouveaux essays d’avions sans queue,” l’Aérophile (Feb. 1–15, 1930).
J. Calvin Lovell and Herbert A. Wilson, Jr., “Langley Full-Scale-Tunnel Investigation of Maximum Lift and Stability Characteristics of an Airplane Having Approximately Triangular Plan Form (DM-1 Glider),” NACA RM-L7F16 (1947).
Norman M. McFadden and Donovan R. Heinle, “Flight Investigation of the Effects of Horizontal-Tail Height, Moment of Inertia, and Control Effectiveness on the Pitch-up Characteristics of a 35° Swept-Wing Fighter Airplane at High Subsonic Speeds,” NACA RM-A54F21 (1955).
John McMasters and D. Muncy, “The Early Development of Jet Propelled Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 2007-0151, Pts. 1–2 (2007).
Odell A. Morris and A. Warner Robins, “Aerodynamic Characteristics at Mach Number 2.01 of an Airplane Configuration Having a Cambered and Twisted Arrow Wing Designed for a Mach Number of 3.0,” NASA TM-X-115 (1959).
Odell A. Morris and James C. Patterson, Jr., “Transonic Aerodynamic Characteristics of Supersonic Transport Model With a Fixed, Warped Wing Having 74° Sweep,” NASA TM-X-1167 (1965).
Odell A. Morris and Roger H. Fournier, “Aerodynamic Characteristics at Mach Numbers 2.30, 2.60, and 2.96 of a Supersonic Transport Model Having Fixed, Warped Wing,” NASA TM-X-1115 (1965).
Odell A. Morris, Dennis E. Fuller, and Carolyn B. Watson, “Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Fixed Arrow-Wing Supersonic Cruise Aircraft at Mach Numbers of 2.30, 2.70, and 2.95,” NASA TM-78706 (1978).
Robert G. Mungall, “Flight Investigation of a Combined Geared Unbalancing-Tab and Servotab Control System as Used with an All-Movable Horizontal Tail,” NACA TN-1763 (1948).
Max M. Munk, “The Aerodynamic Forces on Airship Hills,” NACA Report No. 184 (1923).
Max M. Munk, “Note on the Relative Effect of the Dihedral and the Sweep Back of Airplane Wings,” NACA TN-177 (1924).
Andrew Nahum, “The Royal Aircraft Establishment from 1945 to Concorde,” in Robert Bud and Philip Gummett, eds., Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain’s Defence Laboratories, 1945–1990 (London: Science Museum, 1999), pp. 29–58.
Andrew Nahum, “I Believe the Americans Have Not Yet Taken Them All!” in Helmuth Trischler, Stefan Zeilinger, Robert Bud, and Bernard Finn, eds., Tackling Transport (London: Science Museum, 2003), pp. 99–138.
NASA Langley Research Center staff, “The Supersonic Transport—A Technical Summary,” NASA TN-D-423 (1960).
NASA Langley Research Center staff, “Summary of NACA/NASA Variable-Sweep Research and Development Leading to the F-111 (TFX),” Langley Working Paper LWP-285 (Dec. 22, 1966).
Roy J. Niewald and Jack D. Brewer, “Bibliography of NACA Reports Related to Aircraft Control and Guidance Systems, January 1949–April 1954,” NACA RM-54F01 (1954).
James H. Parks, “Experimental Evidence of Sustained Coupled Longitudinal and Lateral Oscillations from a Rocket-Propelled Model of a 35° Swept Wing Airplane Configuration,” NACA RM-L54D15 (1954).
Paul Pellicano, Joseph Krumenacker, and David Van Hoy, “X-29 High Angle-of-Attack Flight Test Procedures, Results, and Lessons Learned,” Society of Flight Test Engineers 21st Annual Symposium (1990).
Alfred D. Phillips and Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest, USAF, “Phase II Flight Test of the North American YF-100 Airplane USAF No. 52-5754,” AFFTC TR-53-33 (1953).
William H. Phillips, “Effect of Steady Rolling on Longitudinal and Directional Stability,” NACA TN-1627 (1948).
William H. Phillips, “Appreciation and Prediction of Flying Qualities,” NACA Report No. 927 (1949).
William H. Phillips, “Theoretical Analysis of Some Simple Types of Acceleration Restrictors,” NACA TN-2574 (1951).
M.J. Queijo, Byron M. Jaquet, and Walter D. Wolmart, “Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Low Speed of the Effects of Chordwise Wing Fences and Horizontal-Tail Position on the Static Longitudinal Stability Characteristics of an Airplane Model with a 35° Sweptback Wing,” NACA Report 1203 (1954).
George A. Rathert, Jr., L. Stewart Rolls, Lee Winograd, and George E. Cooper, “Preliminary Flight Investigation of the Wing-Dropping Tendency and Lateral-Control Characteristics of a 35° Swept-Wing Airplane at Transonic Mach Numbers,” NACA RM-A50H03 (1950).
George A. Rathert, Jr., Howard L. Ziff, and George E. Cooper, “Preliminary Flight Investigation of the Maneuvering Accelerations and Buffet Boundary of a 35° Swept-Wing Airplane at High Altitude and Transonic Speeds,” NACA RM-A50L04 (1951).
A. Warner Robins, Odell A. Morris, and Roy V. Harris, Jr., “Recent Research Results in the Aerodynamics of Supersonic Vehicles,” AIAA Paper 65-717 (1965).
Dino Roman, J.B. Allen, and Robert H. Liebeck, “Aerodynamic Design Challenges of the Blended-Wing-Body Subsonic Transport,” AIAA Paper 2000-4335 (2000).
Melvin Sadoff and Thomas R. Sisk, “Longitudinal-Stability Characteristics of the Northrop X-4 Airplane (USAF No. 46-677),” NACA RM-A50D27 (1950).
Melvin Sadoff, John D. Stewart, and George E. Cooper, “Analytical Study of the Comparative Pitch-Up Behavior of Several Airplanes and Correlation with Pilot Opinion,” NACA RM-A57D04 (1957).
Edwin J. Saltzman, Donald R. Bellman, and Norman t. Musialowski, “Flight-Determined Transonic Lift and Drag Characteristics of the YF-102 Airplane With Two Wing Configurations,” NACA RM-H56E08 (1956).
Thomas R. Sisk and Duane O. Muhleman, “Longitudinal Stability Characteristics in Maneuvering Flight of the Convair XF-92A Delta-Wing Airplane Including the Effects of Wing Fences,” NACA RM-H54J27 (1955).
Thomas R. Sisk and William H. Andrews, “Flight Experience with a Delta-Wing Airplane Having Violent Lateral-Longitudinal Coupling in Aileron Rolls,” NACA RM-H55H03 (1955).
S.A. Sjoberg and J.P. Reeder: “Flight Measurements of the Lateral and Directional Stability and Control Characteristics of an Airplane Having a 35° Sweptback Wing with 40-Percent-Span slots and a Comparison with Wind-Tunnel Data,” NACA TN-1511 (1948).
S.A. Sjoberg and J.P. Reeder, “Flight Measurements of the Longitudinal Stability, Stalling, and Lift Characteristics of an Airplane Having a 35° Sweptback Wing Without Slots and With 40-Percent-Span Slots and a Comparison with Wind-Tunnel Data,” NACA TN-1679 (1948).
S.A. Sjoberg and J.P. Reeder, “Flight Measurements of the Stability, Control, and Stalling Characteristics of an Airplane Having a 35° Sweptback Wing Without Slots and With 80-Percent-Span Slots and a Comparison with Wind-Tunnel Data,” NACA TN-1743 (1948).
S.A. Sjoberg and R.A. Champine, “Preliminary Flight Measurements of the Static Longitudinal Stability and Stalling Characteristics of the Douglas D-558-II Research Airplane (BuAero No. 37974),” NACA RM-L9H31a (1949).
Ronald Smelt, “A Critical Review of German Research on High-Speed Airflow,” Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol. 50, No. 432 (Dec. 1946).
John E. Steiner, “Transcontinental Rapid Transit: The 367-80 and a Transport Revolution—The 1953–1978 Quarter Century,” AIAA Paper 78-3009 (1978).
Ronald Bel Stiffler, The Bell X-2 Rocket Research Aircraft: The Flight Test Program (Edwards AFB: Air Force Flight Test Center, 1957).
W.H. Stillwell, J.V. Wilmerding, and R.A. Champine, “Flight Measurements with the Douglas D-558-II (BuAero No. 37974) Research Airplane Low-Speed Stalling and Lift Characteristics,” NACA RM-L50G10 (1950).
H.S. Tsien, “Supersonic Flow Over an Inclined Body of Revolution,” Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, vol. 5, No. 2 (Oct. 1938).
United States Senate, TFX Contract Investigation (Second Series): Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 91st Congress, 2nd Session, Pts. 1–3 (Washington: GPO, 1970).
Walter G. Vincenti, “Robert Thomas Jones,” in Biographical Memoirs, vol. 86 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 2005).
Marion H. Yancey, Jr., and Maj. Stuart R. Childs, USAF, “Phase IV Stability Tests of the F-100A Aircraft, USAF S/N 52-5767,” AFFTC TR-55-9 (1955).
Sean Wakayama, “Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of the Blended-Wing-Body,” AIAA Paper 98-4938 (1998).
Joseph Weil, Paul Comisarow, and Kenneth W. Goodson, “Longitudinal Stability and Control Characteristics of an Airplane Model Having a 42.8° Sweptback Circular-Arc Wing with Aspect Ratio 4.00, Taper Ratio 0.60, and Sweptback Tail Surfaces,” NACA RM-L7G28 (1947).
A. Miles Whitnah and Ernest R. Hillje, “Space Shuttle Wind Tunnel Testing Summary,” NASA Reference Publication 1125 (1984).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “An Investigation of the Effects of Sweep on the Characteristics of a High-Aspect-Ratio Wing in the Langley 8-Ft. High Speed Tunnel,” NACA RM-L6J01a (1947).
Edward F. Whittle, Jr., and J. Calvin Lovell, “Full-Scale Investigation of an Equilateral Triangular Wing Having 10-Percent-Thick Biconvex Airfoil Sections,” NACA RM-L8G05 (1948).
W.C. Williams and A.S. Crossfield, “Handling Qualities of High-Speed Airplanes,” NACA RM-L52A08 (1952).
Herbert A. Wilson, Jr., and J. Calvin Lovell, “Full Scale Investigation of the Maximum Lift and Flow Characteristics of an Airplane Having Approximately Triangular Plan Form,” NACA RM-L6K20 (1947).
Herbert A. Wilson, Jr., and J. Calvin Lovell, “Langley Full-Scale Tunnel Investigation of Maximum Lift and Stability Characteristics of an Airplane Having Approximately Triangular Plan Form (DM-1 Glider), NACA RM-L7F16 (1947).
Books and Monographs:
David A. Anderton, Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research, 1917–1977, EP-145 (Washington: NASA, 1978).
Roland Beamont, Testing Early Jets: Compressibility and the Supersonic Era (Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1990).
Walter J. Boyne and Donald H. Lopez, eds., The Jet Age: Forty Years of Jet Aviation (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979).
Peter W. Brooks, The Modern Airliner: Its Origins and Development (London: Putnam & Co., Ltd., 1961).
Charles Burnet, Three Centuries to Concorde (London: Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd., 1979).
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).
Joseph R. Chambers, Innovation in Flight: Research of the NASA Langley Research Center on Revolutionary Advanced Concepts for Aeronautics, SP-2005-4539 (Washington: NASA, 2005).
Eric M. Conway, High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2005).
William H. Cook, The Road to the 707: The Inside Story of Designing the 707 (Bellevue, WA: TYC Publishing Co., 1991).
A. Scott Crossfield with Clay Blair, Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1960).
Richard E. Day, Coupling Dynamics in Aircraft: A Historical Perspective, SP-532 (Washington: NASA, 1997).
Michael Eckert, The Dawn of Fluid Dynamics: A Discipline Between Science and Technology (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2006).
Brig. Gen. Frank K. Everest, Jr., with John Guenther, The Fastest Man Alive (New York: Bantam, 1990 ed.).
George W. Gray, Frontiers of Flight: The Story of NACA Research (New York: Knopf, 1948).
Roy A. Grossnick, et al., United States Naval Aviation 1910–1995 (Washington: U.S. Navy, 1997).
Richard P. Hallion, Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond—The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558 (New York: The Macmillan Co. in association with the Smithsonian Institution, 1972).
Richard P. Hallion, ed., The Hypersonic Revolution: Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology, vols. 1–2 (Washington: USAF, 1998).
Richard P. Hallion and Michael H. Gorn, On the Frontier: Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2002).
James R. Hansen, Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917–1958, SP-4305 (Washington: NASA, 1987).
Edwin P. Hartman, Adventures in Research: A History of the Ames Research Center, 1940–1965, SP-4302 (Washington: NASA 1970).
Theodore von Kármán, Aerodynamics (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963 ed.).
Theodore von Kármán and Lee Edson, The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Kármán, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1967).
Thomas A. Marschak, The Role of Project Histories in the Study of R&D, Rand Report P-2850 (Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1965).
Hans-Ulrich Meier, ed., Die Pfeilflügelentwicklung in Deutschland bis 1945 (Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 2006).
Jay Miller, The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45 (Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing, 2001).
Kenneth Owen, Concorde: Story of a Supersonic Pioneer (London: Science Museum, 2001).
Robert L. Perry, Innovation and Military Requirements: A Comparative Study, Rand Report RM-5182PR (Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1967).
W. Hewitt Phillips, Journey in Aeronautical Research: A Career at NASA Langley Research Center, No. 12 in Monographs in Aerospace History (Washington: NASA, 1998).
R. Dale Reed with Darlene Lister, Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story, SP-4220 (Washington: NASA 1997).
Joseph A. Shortal, A New Dimension: Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years, RP-1028 (Washington: NASA, 1978).
Milton O. Thompson and Curtis Peebles, Flying Without Wings: NASA Lifting Bodies and The Birth of the Space Shuttle (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999).
Milton O. Thompson with J.D. Hunley, Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us, SP-2000-4522 (Washington: NASA, 2000).
Helmuth Trischler, Stefan Zeilinger, Robert Bud, and Bernard Finn, eds., Tackling Transport (London: Science Museum, 2003).