Reports, Papers, Articles, and Presentations:
John D. Anderson, Jr., “Richard Whitcomb and the Area Rule,” in U.S. Air Force: A Complete History, Dik A. Daso, ed. (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2006).
David A. Anderton, “NACA Formula Eases Supersonic Flight,” Aviation Week 63 (Sept. 12, 1955).
Clay Blair, Jr., “The Man Who Put the Squeeze on Aircraft Design,” Air Force Magazine 39 (1956).
Conventional Take-off and Landing (CTOL) Transport Technology 1978: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, Feb. 28–Mar. 3, 1978, NASA CP-2036 (1978).
Douglas Aircraft Company, DC-10 Winglet Flight Evaluation, NASA CR-3704 (1983).
Stuart G. Flechner and Peter F. Jacobs, “Experimental Results of Winglets on First, Second, and Third Generation Jet Transports,” NASA TM-72674 (1978).
Stuart G. Flechner, Peter F. Jacobs, and Richard T. Whitcomb, “A High Subsonic Wind Tunnel Investigation of Winglets on a Representative Second-Generation Jet Transport Wing,” NASA TN-8264 (1976).
M.I. Goldhammer, “A Lifting Surface Theory for the Analysis of Nonplanar Lifting Systems,” AIAA Paper No. 76-16 (1976).
Charles D. Harris, “NASA Supercritical Airfoils—A Matrix of Family-Related Airfoils,” NASA TP-2969 (1990).
KC-1935 Winglet Program Review: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Dryden Flight Research Center, Sept. 16, 1981, NASA CP-2211 (1982).
John E. Lamar, “A Vortex-Lattice Method for the Mean Camber Shapes of Trimmed Noncoplanar Platforms with Minimum Vortex Drag,” NASA TN-D-8090 (1976).
Langley Research Center, “NASA Contributions to the C-17 Globemaster III,” FS-1996-05-06-LaRC (1996).
Lawrence C. Montoya and Richard D. Banner, “F-8 Supercritical Wing Flight Pressure, Boundary-Layer, and Wake Measurements and Comparisons with Wind Tunnel Data,” NASA TM-X-3544 (1977).
Proceedings of the F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire and Supercritical Wing First Flight’s 20th Anniversary, May 27, 1992, NASA CP-3256 (1996).
Jon S. Pyle and Louis L. Steers, “Flight-Determined Lift and Drag Characteristics of an F-8 Airplane Modified with a Supercritical Wing with Comparisons to Wind Tunnel Results,” NASA TM-X-3250 (1975).
Supercritical Wing Technology—A Progress Report on Flight Evaluations, NASA SP-301 (1972).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “A Design Approach and Selected Wind-Tunnel Results at High Subsonic Speeds for Wing-Tip Mounted Winglets,” NASA TN-D-8260 (1976).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “A Study of the Zero-Lift Drag-Rise Characteristics of Wing-Body Combinations Near the Speed of Sound,” NACA RM-L52H08 (1952).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “A Study of the Zero-Lift Drag-Rise Characteristics of Wing-Body Combinations Near the Speed of Sound,” NACA TR-1273 (1956).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “Research Associated with the Langley 8-Foot Tunnels Branch: Lecture at Ames Research Center, October 21, 1970,” NASA TM-108686 (1970).
Richard T. Whitcomb, “Some Considerations Regarding the Application of the Supersonic Area Rule to the Design of Airplane Fuselages,” NACA RM-L56E23a (1956).
Richard T. Whitcomb and Larry L. Clark, “An Airfoil Shape for Efficient Flight at Supercritical Mach Numbers,” NASA TM-X-1109 (1965).
Richard T. Whitcomb and Thomas L. Fischetti, “Development of a Supersonic Area Rule and an Application to the Design of a Wing-Body Combination Having High Lift-to-Drag Ratios,” NACA RM-L53H31A (1953).
Richard T. Whitcomb and Thomas C. Kelly, “A Study of the Flow Over a 45-degree Sweptback Wing-Fuselage Combination at Transonic Mach Numbers,” NACA RM-L52DO1 (1952).
Books and Monographs:
John D. Anderson, Jr., A History of Aerodynamics and its Impact on Flying Machines (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Donald D. Baals and William R. Corliss, Wind Tunnels of NASA (Washington, DC: NASA, 1981).
John Becker, The High Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs 1920–1950, NASA SP-445 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1980).
Joseph R. Chambers, Concept to Reality: Contributions of the Langley Research Center to U.S. Civil Aircraft of the 1990s (Washington, DC: NASA, 2003).
Joseph R. Chambers, Innovation in Flight: Research of the NASA Langley Research Center on Revolutionary Advanced Concepts for Aeronautics, NASA SP-2005-4539 (Washington, DC: NASA, 2005).
Eric M. Conway, High Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Eugene S. Ferguson, Engineering and the Mind’s Eye (Boston: MIT Press, 1994).
Michael Gorn, Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at NACA and NASA (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001).
Richard P. Hallion, Designers and Test Pilots (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1983).
Richard P. Hallion, On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden, 1946–1981 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1984).
James R. Hansen, Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917–1958, NASA SP-4305 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1987).
Pam E. Mack, ed., From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners (Washington, DC: NASA, 1998).
James Schultz, Crafting Flight: Aircraft Pioneers and the Contributions of the Men and Women of NASA Langley Research Center (Washington, DC: NASA, 2003).