Several new eBooks are available for download from the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate website. These books detail many NASA and NACA achievements in aeronautics research, and feature some of the Agency's contributions to aircraft safety, icing research, environmentally friendly aircraft technology, and more. These and other titles can be downloaded to a variety of eBook readers/mobile devices, including the Kindle, iPad, and Sony Reader - just download the file to your computer, then drop and drag it to your e-reader/mobile device. Glenn employees - please feel free to contact the Glenn Science & Engineering Library at 3-5778 for additional assistance.

"NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volumes 1 and 2", Edited by Richard P. Hallion.

Since its creation, NASA has steadily advanced flight within the atmosphere, repeatedly influencing aviation's evolution by extending the rich legacy of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. The first of two volumes includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions such as high-speed wing design, the area rule, rotary-wing aerodynamics research, sonic boom mitigation, hypersonic design, computational fluid dynamics, electronic flight control and environmentally friendly aircraft technology. The second volume includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions including wind shear and lightning research, flight operations, human factors, wind tunnels, composite structures, general aviation aircraft safety, supersonic cruise aircraft research and atmospheric icing.

"Modeling Flight", by Joseph R. Chambers.

For years, NASA has used subscale models of aircraft to test how they would perform at full size. In fact, since the 1920s during the days of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, scientists have continually refined testing techniques including building and using new facilities, making models more sophisticated and learning how to best interpret the results. Using these techniques, NASA has made many contributions to a broad range of aircraft including general aviation, fighters, civil transports, lifting bodies, reentry capsules, parawing vehicles, and supersonic transports. This book describes the issues that must be considered when transferring subscale results to full-scale application, and reviews results obtained in historically significant aircraft programs conducted at NASA's Langley Research Center, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, and NASA's Ames Research Center.