Wiley Post, His "Winnie Mae", and the World's First Pressure Suit
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Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Stanley R. Mohler |
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Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Bobby H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Militarybookshop.CompanyUK |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780392714 |
Originally published in 1971, this is a volume in the "Smithsonian Annals of Flight" series.
Author | : Dennis R. Jenkins |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780160901102 |
"Since its earliest days, flight has been about pushing the limits of technology and, in many cases, pushing the limits of human endurance. The human body can be the limiting factor in the design of aircraft and spacecraft. Humans cannot survive unaided at high altitudes. There have been a number of books written on the subject of spacesuits, but the literature on the high-altitude pressure suits is lacking. This volume provides a high-level summary of the technological development and operational use of partial- and full-pressure suits, from the earliest models to the current high altitude, full-pressure suits used for modern aviation, as well as those that were used for launch and entry on the Space Shuttle. The goal of this work is to provide a resource on the technology for suits designed to keep humans alive at the edge of space."--NTRS Web site.
Author | : Nicholas De Monchaux |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2011-03-18 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 026201520X |
How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those attempts failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : C.G. Sweeting |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476619468 |
Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized. The decisive actions of leaders, generals and war heroes have been well documented, but less well known are the technological developments that made victory possible and laid the groundwork for postwar progress. Based on more than ten years of research, this book describes how American airmen became the best-outfitted aviators of the war, tracing the development of virtually every piece of personal equipment used by United States air forces. Drawing on original sources including formerly classified documents, the author details the myriad types of respirator equipment, parachutes, body armor, pressure suits and other flying and survival gear that were instrumental in making U.S. pilots and air crews effective. Personal anecdotes bring to life the design and testing of combat flight equipment. More than 160 photographs are included, most published here for the first time.
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Total Pages | : 1932 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Charles E. Billings |
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Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Aeronautical instruments |
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Author | : Bonnie Domrose Stone |
Publisher | : Bonnie D. Stone |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Antelope Valley (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 0977332802 |