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airliner manufacturing for, 67–69
airmail, the U.S. start of, 258–62
first global infrastructure for, 128
Lindbergh’s flight portends, 119, 181
turbine propulsion for, 196–97
wing sweep benefiting, 133–35
commercial jetliners, 85
Airbus A380 largest, 279–80
head-up displays on, 290–91
communications, 293
composites, 298–99
compressibility of air, 130
compression loads, 79–80
computational fluid dynamics, 299
computer applications, 289–90
Concorde supersonic transport (SST), 277–78
configuration
aviation inventors challenged by, 37–38
aviation’s variations in, 53–54
Cayley identifying, 40
Henson, William S., and, 38
of wing flaps, 124
Wright brothers adopting, 42
Constellation, Lockheed, 273
control (airplane), 153
angle of incidence in, 154
lift on aircraft’s wings for, 151
stability v., 160
Wright brothers preoccupied with, 149
controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents, 285–86
control surfaces, 152–53
control systems
of the Antoinette, 175
cloche, 174
confusion over, 174–76
fly-by-wire, 199–200
lateral, 157
of military aircraft, 282
using wheel controllers, 174–75
Wright brothers filing patent for, 161
of the Wright Model A Flyer, 174
conventional landing gear, 239
cost/performance visibility in aerospace engineering, 295
cowling, 60, 222–23
crew resource management, 199
cross country flight, 87–89
Crouch, Tom, 176
CRM. See crew resource management
CRT. See cathode ray tube
Cuddeback, Leon, 261, 267
Curtiss A-1 Triad, 243
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, 216–17, 224
Curtiss F-Boat, boat-hulled airplane, 243, 243
Curtiss, Glenn, 59, 94, 144, 168, 241
hydroaeroplane envisioned by, 242–43
retractable wheels concept of, 247
world speed record to, 62, 63
Curtiss Loon, 242
Curtiss June Bug, 167–70, 169, 175–76
Curtiss OX-5 engine, 213–14
Curtiss T-32 Condor, 127, 250
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 126, 220, 227
Cyclopedia (Chambers), 23
Daily Mail prize, 48–49
Daimler, Gottlieb, 33, 202
Daniels, John T., 17, 19–20
d’Arlandes, Francois Laurent, 2–3
Darwin, Charles, 91
da Vinci, Leonardo, 6
de Havilland DH.106 Comet I
crashes of, 82–85
metal fatigue in, 83–84
redesign of, 84–85
de Havilland DH-4, 263
de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber, 73
delta wing, 133
Demoiselle monoplane, 139
Deperdussin, Armand, 69–70
Deperdussin Company, 174–75
Deperdussin racer, 69, 69–70
design-build-support team concept, 295
dihedral, 42, 98–99
dogfights, 63
Doolittle, Jimmy, 177–78, 182, 187
background of, 182–83
first blind flight by, 189–90, 190,–92, 191
instrument developments defined and overseen by, 184, 188
Laird Super-Solution racer used by, 250–51
Dornier, Claudius, 245
Dornier Do X
flying boat design of, 245
twelve engines of, 245
Dough, W. S., 17
Douglas company airliners, 272–73
Douglas DC-1, 125–26
Douglas DC-2, 81–82, 122–23
Douglas DC-3, 81
airline industry comes of age with, 82, 271
uninterrupted aisles of, 270–71
fuselage for, 127–28
Douglas DC-7C, 129
Douglas M-2, 262–63
Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST).
See Douglas DC-3
downstream drag, 140
Dutch roll, 134–35
EADS. See European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company Eads, Jane, 264–65, 266
Earhart, Amelia, 72
economy-class travel, 279
Edward VII, King, 17
efficiency, 236–37, 305–6
electronic flight instrument system (EFIS), 197–98
elevator, pitch control by, 156–57
Ely, Eugene, 214–15
e-mail, 293
empennage, 138–40
enclosed cabin, 257
engine instruments, 176
English Channel
Blériot, Louis, flying across, 51–53, 52
flying across, 48–49
Sperry, L., disappearing over, 185
enhanced flight vision systems, 290–91
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert, 154, 174
Espenscheid, Lloyd, 283–84
Etheridge, A. D., 17
ethylene glycol (Prestone), 220–21
Europe
chauffeur mindset of, 148–49, 203
heavier-than-air flying machine of, 35
lateral tilt avoidance, 167
three-axes control achieved in, 170
Wright brothers’ sales campaign in, 142
European Aeronautic Defense and