Lockheed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer emerged as its first hero. Greenamyer enlisted Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineers Pete Law and Bruce Boland to modify his Bearcat, enabling him to win
Since leaving the entry area several hours ago, he had been moving along in low gear in order not to miss any potential clues that might point the way to the anachronistic fossil's place of origin-a locale which, as was usually the case with unidentifiable anachronisms, the paleontological ...
Steven W. Smith, in Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists, 2003 Space Sometimes, you just have to make the most out of a bad picture. This is frequently the case with images taken from unmanned satellites and space exploration vehicles. No one is going to...
bases its plans on previous work they carried out at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. In 1992 Hunter and his colleagues fired a 130 m (425 ft) cannon built to test launch hypersonic engines. Its piston, driven by methane, compressedhydrogen gasthat expanded ...
Richard and Barby loved each other in the passionate fashion of newlyweds, the years not yet smoothing the sharp edges of their union. They fought and made up, the tears and laughter running together. They had eloped, celebrating their tender young marriage by moving from Ohio to Southern Cali...
In recent years, increasingly stringent exhaust emission regulations for internal combustion engines have forced piston designers to reduce the piston's crevice volume (the space between the piston top-land and the cylinder bore) by moving the piston ring closer to the top of the piston. Such pis...