This monograph relates the important history of the Propulsion Controlled Aircraft project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Spurred by a number of airplane crashes caused by the loss of hydraulic flight controls, a NASA-industry team lead by Frank W. Burcham and C. Gordon Fullerton developed a way to land an aircraft safely using only engine thrust to control the airplane.
| Author: Tom Tucker |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jul 18, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 62 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 147826666X |
| ISBN-13: 9781478266662 |