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aerospace engineeringField concerned with the development, design, construction, testing, and operation of airplanes and spacecraft. The field has its roots in balloon flight, gliders, and airships, and in the 1960s it was broadened to include space vehicles. Principal technologies are those of aerodynamics, propulsion, structure and stability, and control. Aerospace engineers in academic, industrial, and government research centres cooperate in designing new products. Flight testing of prototypes follows, and finally quantity production and operation take place. Important developments in aerospace engineering include the metal monocoque fuselage, the cantilevered monoplane wing, the jet engine, supersonic flight, and spaceflight. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Jack Templin, an aeronautical engineer from Ottawa,
describe their analysis of the four-winged dinosaur online and in an
upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Habibie, a civilian, aeronautical engineer and former minister of
Research and Technology. A graduate of Quartz Hill High School, Astourian is the daughter of
a Northrop Grumman aeronautical engineer and a mother who worked in
accounting and then stayed home when she entered high school. |
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