The Airplane - Jay Spenser [142]
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
as first pressurized airliner, 271–72
flight engineer position in, 193–94, 194
turbo-superchargers used in, 227–29
Boeing 314 Clipper
flying-boat era and, 246
luxury ocean travel the paradigm for, 259–60
mealtimes on, 261
overnight sleeping services of, 137
passengers entering, 260
spacious cockpit, 194–95
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
complex cockpit of, 197
flight crew demands from, 195–96
gold-toned dressing rooms in, 276
large interior of, 273–74
with most powerful piston engine, 195, 196
Pratt & Whitney R-4360 engines in, 273
Pullman-type berths in, 275
Boeing 707
commercial jet age ushered in by, 85
turbine propulsion of, 84
turbojet engines initially used in, 234–35
Boeing 747 jumbo jet, 277
Boeing 767, 198
Boeing 777
enormous fanjet engines of, 236
reliability of, 235
twinjet configuration of, 277
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, 85, 297–98
air travel changed by, 280, 296
collective inventiveness in, 303–4
global collaboration for, 297
greater efficiency of, 236–37
high-ceiling entryway of, 302
improved air-travel experience, 300
large single-piece sections assembly of, 299
lightweight composite structure of, 298–99
noise-reduction technology of, 302
overhead stowage bins of, 300–301
travel experience of, 303
windows larger/taller in, 301
Boeing Air Transport
Eads first passenger of, 264–65, 266
first stewardesses on, 268–69
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, 82
Boeing B-47 Stratojet, 134
as first large swept-wing production airplane, 132
retractable wheels of, 251–52
Boeing Sonic Cruiser, 297
Boeing, William E., 296
Bohr, Niels, 308
Bollée, Léon, 142
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 4
boundary layer, 314n2
box kite, 41
biplane wings evolve from, 96
Hargrave, L., using, 93, 93–94
bracing wires, 91, 113–14
Brinkley, W. C., 17
Brompton Dale, Cayley glider test at, 11
Browning, John, 102–3, 267–68
Brown, Walter Folger, 262
Busemann, Adolf, 131–32
buyer-furnished equipment (BFE) on jetliners, 279
BWB. See blended wing-body
Caldwell, Frank Walker, 224–25, 226
California Institute of Technology’s Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT), 180
canard, 45
cantilever bridges, 115
cantilevered wings, 115
Capra, Frank, 183
cast-block engine, 212
castor oil, 210
cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, 199
Cayley, Sir George, 2, 24–25, 88
airfoil configurations evaluated by, 8
as airplane’s conceptual inventor, 1–2
aviation thinking of, 3-4, 9
best airplane configuration identified by, 40
death of, 11
flight’s physical forces identified by, 8
flying machine etching by, 4–5, 5
full-size glider constructed by, 9–10
Henson a disciple of, 11–12
lack of fuselage guidance, 58
nature inspires him, 6–7
propulsion system concept of, 5, 7, 201
wing dihedral idea of, 98–99
center of
gravity, 150–51
lift, 150–51
pressure, 109
rotation, 140
centrifugal-flow compressor, 232
CFIT. See controlled flight into terrain
Chambers, Ephraim, 23
Chanute-Herring glider, 96, 97–98, 106
Chanute, Octave, 32, 33, 94–95, 102, 106, 143, 293
biplane wing structure developed by, 41
flying experiments convened by, 95–96
Charles, Jacques Alexandre, 3
chauffeurs (mindset of Europe’s experimenters), 148–49, 203
chocolate-chip cookies, 121
Church, Ellen, 268–69
circling flight, first, 163
circumferential members, 80
Clemens, Samuel, 284
clipper ships, 229–30
cloche control system, 174
coast-to-coast U.S. airmail delivery, 261–62
cockpits, 173
of Boeing 314 Clipper, 194–95
of Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, 197
Doolittle blind flight, 188
EFIS employed in, 197–98
flight crew demands from, 195–96
glass, 197–98, 198
instruments in, 176–77
collective inventiveness, 303–4
Collins, Michael, 52
Colombine, D. E., 13
commercial airliners
fuel-cell power density and, 307–8
passenger experience redefined in, 276–77
retractable wheels used by, 250–51
troposphere/stratosphere operation of, 317n2
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