41. Military/Veteran Glossary, Terms And Abbreviations VARIABLE geometry aircraft. AIRCRAFT WITH VARIABLE PROFILE GEOMETRY, SUCH AS VARIABLE SWEEP WINGS EG, F111. VARIABLE SAFETY LEVEL http://members.aol.com/usmilbrats/glossary/v.htm

htmlAdWH('93212820', '728', '90'); Main Alumni Email The American War Library Home ... Business Card This page is continuously updated Permission granted to link to this page... http://members.aol.com/usmilbrats/glossary.htm Return to the Main Glossary VA DEPT OF VETERAN'S AFFAIRS [GU] VADM VICE ADMIRAL (3 STARS) [GU] VADML VICE ADML [VN] VAF V'NAMESE AIR FORCE [VN] VALIDATION PHASE BASIS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED INTO FULL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT VALUABLE CARGO CARGO WHICH MAY BE OF VALUE DURING A LATER STAGE OF THE WAR. SEE ALSO CARGO VALUE ENGINEERING VANDEGRIFT US ARMY (LATER USMC) ARTY BASE NEAR KHE SAHN ('68) [VN] VARIABILITY THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PROBABILITY OF DAMAGE TO A SPECIFIC TARGET DECREASES WITH THE DISTANCE FROM GROUND ZERO; OR, IN DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, A MATHEMATICAL FACTOR INTRODUCED TO AVERAGE THE EFFECTS OF ORIENTATION, MINOR SHIELDING AND UNCERTAINTY OF TARGET RESPONSE TO THE EFFECTS CONSIDERED VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT AIRCRAFT WITH VARIABLE PROFILE GEOMETRY, SUCH AS VARIABLE SWEEP WINGS EG, F-111 VARIABLE SAFETY LEVEL SEE SAFETY LEVEL OF SUPPLY VARIANT 1. 1 OF 2 OR MORE CIPHER OR CODE SYMBOLS WHICH HAVE THE SAME PLAIN TEXT EQUIVALENT. 2. 1 OF SEVERAL PLAIN TEXT MEANINGS THAT ARE REPRESENTED BY A SINGLE CODE GROUP ALSO CALLED ALTERNATIVE

42. Never Boil An Alarm Clock Address - THE POCKET INTERNET zoom lenses, polyester fibers, radar, continuous casting of metals, holography, highspeed phototypesetting and variable geometry aircraft wings. http://www.thepocket.com/speech7page2.htm

"NEVER BOIL AN ALARM CLOCK" (Page 2) Finally, we come to America's supposed leadership in scientific technology. This has always been an article of faith in other countries as well as our own. Only in the last few years has there been any real effort to examine whether America really has any significant leadership in technological skills. If you rely upon the schoolbooks you read as a child, you would be inclined to think that Americans invented nearly everything. Alas, the facts are that when it comes to technological innovation, it very strongly appears that Europe has pretty close to the same batting average that we have. What we so frequently take for American inventions are, in fact, European - though for reasons which I shall explain, they are widely accepted throughout the world as being purely American. "Much as I believe in capitalism, I cannot identify it as the particular ingredient which has built the astonishing American economy." Now I do not remember that any teacher I ever had assigned any of this country's success to the institution of capitalism. For some reason, teachers rarely do. But I am not wholly insulated from those who have a profound respect for the virtues of capitalism. Here again, an examination of history indicates that capitalism of and by itself is not an institution that automatically creates astonishing economic growth. It has certainly existed for a long time in many countries where growth has not been spectacular. Much as I believe in capitalism, I cannot identify it as the particular ingredient which has built the astonishing American economy.

43. Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics And Control Laboratory of the future such as the airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle, variable geometry aircraft, reusable launch vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles. http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/mfdclab/home.htm

The Multidisciplinary Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory at California State University, Los Angeles is funded by grants from NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Established in 1999 MFDCLab is focused on developing: State-of-the-art computing tools and techniques and networking technologies to enable "virtual aircraft design," the ability to simulate an entire aircraft via computational capabilities. Crucial technology bases for modeling, control, and simulation of High-performance and unusual aircraft of the future such as the airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle, variable geometry aircraft, reusable launch vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Intelligent self-commanding, self-diagnosing, and self-repairing flight control systems High-efficiency, low-environmental-impact propulsion systems Our Address Cal State University, Los Angeles

44. FindLaw For Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal And State Resources, Forms, a manufacturer of polymer products, including wing slot seals ( wing seals ) used in variable geometry aircraft, sometimes called swing wing aircraft. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=2nd&navby=case&no=966089

45. Hasegawa 1/72 F-111G Aardvark Unlike most kits of variable geometry aircraft, Hasegawa has made very little accommodation for any swept wing options in its F111 kits. http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/60s/f-111g-raaf.htm

web hosting domain names photo sharing HASEGAWA 1:72 F-111G AARDVARK Reviewer: Kevan Vogler rec.models.scale Kit Review submitted: 19 May 2005 Aircraft History: The history of the F-111 Aardvark family is well documented, from its early teething problems to its ceremonious retirement from the U.S. Air Force in the late 90’s after more than 30 years of service. The G model was developed from the FB-111 after the B-2 stealth bomber replaced it in American service. It is the last variant of the F-111 family and continues to soldier on with the Royal Australian Air Force. The Kit: This kit hit the hobby shop shelves as a G model a few years ago and is a reissue of Hasegawa’s FB-111 kit from the late 1980’s. No alterations beyond a new set of decals have been made to it. There is no true box art for this release, the box has a photograph of an actual F-111G on the top. It’s a high quality photo and is very useful for reference purposes. The moldings are crisp and clean, light grey styrene with a good balance of strength and flexibility. Panel lines are sharply defined and finely recessed. In short, everything you expect from Hasegawa. Instructions: The instructions are typical Hasegawa, you get a parts map, easy to follow construction steps and paint call outs for the Gunze and Mr. Colour paint ranges. The instruction manual is direct from the previous release of the FB-111 and shows three American marking options that are not available in this reissue. The two Australian F-111Gs that are the subject of this kit are detailed on a separate leaflet that is included as an addendum.

46. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLYING BULLETS The MiG27s are the most powerful single engine strike aircraft in world today, it is a variable geometry aircraft optimised for a strike role with a http://indianairforce.nic.in/18sqn.htm

47. Paradigm, No, ( February, 1999) variablegeometry aircraft, submarines, bridge design, telescope construction, medical callipers, racing skiffs, school furniture and buildings, http://w4.ed.uiuc.edu/faculty/westbury/Paradigm/stopes-roe.html

Paradigm , No. 27 (February, 1999) Barnes Wallis and Mathematics with Love Mary Stopes-Roe My subject is a collection of letters written for a very specific purpose and to a very specific person. The letters amount to a correspondence course in calculus, trigonometry and electromagnetism, aimed at first-year science for London University Intermediate exams: they were never used by anyone other than by the recipient, nor indeed read by anybody else until I started on them. They were certainly teaching material, giving detailed instruction and explanation in these subjects: whether they constitute a text-book is another question. The recipient presents a very different picture. Born in 1904, she was brought up in a large and very close family, an odd mixture of Victorian rigour and personal eccentricity. She had a full education of the kind that was normal for a young lady of the time, passed her matriculation, and entered University College London determined to read medicine. This involved the routine science subjects in the first year, but her education had left her with a very inadequate knowledge of physics, and little facility in or understanding of mathematics. The course began in 1922, in Molly's first term at University, and continued until the spring of 1924, ending as she took her mock intermediate exams, but it is not obvious why it took the form of a correspondence course. Barnes and Molly were cousins, both lived in London, and therefore might have met for lessons safely chaperoned by her aunt or in her family home. He was not of an undesirable character, young, flighty or irresponsible so why did he have to embark on this arduous, and less advantageous method of distance teaching?

48. Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - Gastambide-Levasseur Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus. Contents Manufacturers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, GastambideLevasseur Variable geometry aircraft. Contents http://www.mda.org.uk/aircraft/7898.htm

Contents Manufacturers: A B C D ... NATO Codes Gastambide-Levasseur Gastambide-Levasseur Variable Geometry Aircraft Contents You may freely download this page for non-profit use, but must acknowledge the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum in any output in which it is used. The Museum acknowledges the work of MDA in converting this resource for use on the Web.

49. Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus - Makhonine Royal Air Force Museum Aircraft Thesaurus. Contents Manufacturers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, Makhonine. Makhonine Variable geometry aircraft. Contents http://www.mda.org.uk/aircraft/9619.htm

Contents Manufacturers: A B C D ... NATO Codes Makhonine Makhonine Variable Geometry Aircraft Contents You may freely download this page for non-profit use, but must acknowledge the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum in any output in which it is used. The Museum acknowledges the work of MDA in converting this resource for use on the Web.

50. SZ/AeRC AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL RAF AIRCRAFT RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 19471953 in-flight re-fuelling; variable-geometry aircraft; experimental knob shapes ; http://www.lib.uea.ac.uk/lib/libinf/find/archives/zuckerman/genaerc.htm

SZ/AeRC AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL RAF AIRCRAFT RESEARCH COMMITTEE, 1947-1953 Contains three files SZ/AeRC/1 Agenda and Minutes, 1947-1953 [in three sub-files] SZ/AeRC/2 Correspondence, 1947-1953 SZ/AeRC/3 Documents RAFARC 1-345, 1942-1953 The RAF Aircraft Research Committee of the Aeronautical Research Council was established in January 1947 "To study the basic problems of R.A.F. aircraft and their operation and to advise the Council on research needed to solve these problems [and] to report to the Council". SZ was invited to become an independent member of the Committee in February 1947. The Committee met monthly under the chairmanship, initially, of Professor P.M.S. Blackett and then of Dr A. A. Hall. SZ/AeRC/2 Correspondence, 1947-1953 Imports Substitution Panel ), and bird navigation and the potential relevance of the research work of G.V.T. Matthews of Cambridge University to the solution of aircraft navigation problems. An MS calendar of the correspondence is available for consultation in the Archives Department. SZ/AeRC/3 Documents RAFARC 1-345, 1942-1953

51. Panavia It is a compact twinengined variable- geometry aircraft. The Tornado was also the first production military aircraft with flight-by-wire controls. http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/ital/TORNADOP.html

Tornado Panavia Tornado (Italy) Type: Tornado F.3 Function: fighter Year: 1986 Crew: 2 Engines: 2 * 8530kg Turbo-union RB199-34R Mk.104 Wing Span: 13.91m/8.60m Length: 18.08m Height: 5.95m Wing Area: 30.00m2/ Empty Weight: 14501kg Max.Weight: 27987kg Speed: 2333km/h Ceiling: 21335m Range: 3600km Armament: 1*g27mm msl Type: Tornado GR.1 Function: attack Year: 1982 Crew: 2 Engines: 2 * 71.4kN Turbo-union RB199-34R Mk.101 Wing Span: 13.90m/8.60m Length: 16.70m Height: 5.70m Wing Area: 30m2 Empty Weight: Max.Weight: 27210kg Speed: 1480km/h Ceiling: 15240m Range: 3890km Armament: 2*g27mm 8980kg Tebaldi-Zara (Breda) Back to index Back to Top Page Z.501 Gabbiano, CANT

52. Fixed-wing Aircraft - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia of their development, these were termed variable geometry aircraft. When the wings of these aircraft are fully swept, usually for high speed cruise, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane

Fixed-wing aircraft From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Airplane "Airplane" redirects here. There are also a series of comedy movies titled Airplane! Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English . This term can refer to a large range of craft designed for many purposes, ranging from large commercial aircraft, known as airliners , to military aircraft of various categories, cargo aircraft , and so on. Fixed-wing aircraft include monoplanes biplanes and triplanes ; in fact all conventional aircraft that are neither balloons airships autogyros helicopters or tiltrotors are fixed-wing aircraft. An American Airlines Boeing 767 , an example of a fixed-wing aircraft The term also embraces a minority of aircraft with folding wings that are intended to fold when on the ground. This is usually in order to to ease stowage or facilitate transport on, for example, a vehicle trailer or the powered lift connecting the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier to its flight deck. It also embraces an even smaller number of aircraft, such as the

53. Geometry Definitions This slide gives technical definitions of a wing s geometry, view shows a simple wing geometry, like that found on a light general aviation aircraft. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/geom.html

This slide gives technical definitions of a wing's geometry, which is one of the chief factors affecting airplane lift and drag. The terminology is used throughout the airplane industry and is also found in the FoilSim interactive airfoil simulation program developed here at NASA Glenn. Actual aircraft wings are complex three-dimensional objects, but we will start with some simple definitions. The figure shows the wing viewed from three directions; the upper left shows the view from the top looking down on the wing, the lower left shows the view from the front looking at the wing leading edge, and the right shows a side view from the left looking in towards the centerline. The side view shows an airfoil shape with the leading edge to the left. Top View The top view shows a simple wing geometry, like that found on a light general aviation aircraft. The front of the wing (at the bottom) is called the leading edge ; the back of the wing (at the top) is called the trailing edge . The distance from the leading edge to the trailing edge is called the chord , denoted by the symbol c . The ends of the wing are called the wing tips , and the distance from one wing tip to the other is called the span , given the symbol s . The shape of the wing, when viewed from above looking down onto the wing, is called a

54. Wing Geometry Definitions The top view shows a simple rectangular wing geometry, like that used by the Wright For most modern aircraft, the chord length varies along the span, http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Wright/airplane/geom.html

This slide gives technical definitions of a wing's geometry, which is one of the chief factors affecting airplane lift and drag. The terminology used here is used throughout the airplane industry today and was mostly known to the Wright brothers in 1900. Actual aircraft wings are complex three-dimensional objects, but we will start with some simple definitions. The figure shows a wing viewed from three directions; the upper left shows the view from the top looking down on the wing, the lower left shows the view from the front looking at the wing leading edge, and the right shows a side view from the left looking in towards the centerline. The side view shows an airfoil shape with the leading edge to the left. This airfoil is a modern, thick airfoil, which is slightly different from the thin airfoils used by the Wrights and shown below. The terminology, however, is the same. Top View The top view shows a simple rectangular wing geometry, like that used by the Wright brothers. The front of the wing (at the bottom) is called the leading edge ; the back of the wing (at the top) is called the trailing edge . The distance from the leading to trailing edges is called the chord . The ends of the wing are called the wing tips , and the distance from one wing tip to the other is called the span . The shape of the wing, when viewed from above looking down onto the wing, is called a

55. Air Safety Week: New Approach Invites Wake Turbulence Encounters a SOIA geometry puts the trailing aircraft below the aircraft in front. In this case, the geometry directly contradicts the extant guidance on vortex http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_48_18/ai_n8581753

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Air Safety Week Dec 20, 2004 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for Academy of Marketing Science Review Accounting Historians Journal, The Accounting History AgExporter ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports New Approach Invites Wake Turbulence Encounters Air Safety Week Dec 20, 2004 Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. More wake turbulence upsets and higher training costs could result from a new landing procedure proposed for Cleveland-Hopkins International airport in Ohio. Officials with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) are concerned that the new procedure could set a precedent applied elsewhere. The proposed procedure for Cleveland's runways 24L and 24R is known as Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach (SOIA). The runways are parallel to each other and their centerlines are approximately 1,240 feet apart. The landing threshold for runway 24R is about 2,100 feet beyond that of runway 24L, which, as will be shown, is a key factor.

56. The Efficient Parametrization Of Aircraft Geometry The Efficient Parametrization of aircraft geometry. NASA Langely Research Center has funded research to investigate the way in which the PDE method can be http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/CAGD.dir/section3_4.html

Next: Computer-Aided Rapid Prototyping Up: Computer Aided Geometric and Functional Design Previous: Automatic Design for Function The Efficient Parametrization of Aircraft Geometry NASA Langely Research Center has funded research to investigate the way in which the PDE method can be used to efficiently parametrize aircraft geometry. The types of objects considered have included the a supersonic transport and nacelle/pylon configurations. Software has been developed that allows the interactive manipulation of such geometries by a user sitting at a suitable workstation. Page Created: Mon Dec 12 1994 Last Updated: 19th March 1996.

57. Geometry Description . To analyze the flow about an aircraft s shape, the designer needs first to determine and build an appropriate surface description.......geometry http://hpcc.engin.umich.edu/CFD/users/charlton/Thesis/html/node6.html

Next: Grid Generation Methods Up: INTRODUCTION Previous: Aerodynamic Analysis Geometry Description To analyze the flow about an aircraft's shape, the designer needs first to determine and build an appropriate surface description. Any given airplane is composed of many individual parts, and specifying everything in its entirety can be very difficult and time-consuming. Many aircraft shapes, however, can be grouped in base shapes that differ only in key values of certain parameters , for example fuselage-length, wing-span, and tail-height. By starting with these parameters, a large variety of shapes can be easily built within this family. Oscar 's model is not the first parametric aircraft model in aerospace engineering design, and it will not be the last. Many models are buried in corporate proprietary environments, restricting their usefulness to the engineering public. This same restriction makes it difficult for oscar 's model to take advantage of anything more realistic that might be considered ``state of the art.'' The goal was to build a shape that looked like an airplane, and that was satisfied, but it should not be taken as the final word in aircraft shape design. Another parametric model for airplane-like shapes is Smith's Rapid Airplane Parametric Input Design (RAPID)[ ]. RAPID's geometric basis is biparameter surfaces defined by ordinary differential equations (ODE). By solving the ODE, the shape is determined completely, with all necessary derivatives determined incidentally. RAPID's strength is the creation of complete volume grids, perfectly suitable for analysis with a multi-block flow solver. However, by restricting the input model to a single family of shapes easily describable by ODE, the models themselves are simpler, with sharp features suitable for high-speed civil transport (HSCT) design perhaps, but not for subsonic aircraft.

58. Parametric Aircraft Parametric aircraft. figure329 Figure General airplane configuration. Perhaps the best reason for selecting a parametric geometry definition of http://hpcc.engin.umich.edu/CFD/users/charlton/Thesis/html/node14.html

Next: Geometric Basis Up: PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY DEFINITION Previous: PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY DEFINITION Parametric Aircraft Figure: General airplane configuration. Perhaps the best reason for selecting a parametric geometry definition of component-based design is that once the configuration is specified, the design process usually proceeds, component-by-component[ ]. An airplane is usually built from parts that are joined together, for example, a fuselage, a wing, tail, and engines, as shown in Figure . Just as these parts are considered separately, they are usually designed separately. When considering stability, for example, the wing and tail aerodynamics are usually computed as point forces. By combining these components, we can build a wide variety of shapes; these shapes are easy to specify and visualizewith or without fancy 3D computer software. Finally, most of the parameters used to build the geometry are actual design variables in that they have physical significance, for example fuselage-length, fuselage-width, wing-span, and wing-root-chord. Hopefully, this leads to an easier understanding of what these design-variables influence aerodynamically and will ultimately reduce the need for design iterations. Another way to consider this is the issue of macro-design vs.

59. Working With FlightGear Aircraft Geometry Models :: Using The Aerospace Blockset Many 3D aircraft geometry models are available for use with FlightGear. Look at other aircraft data files for examples in geometry models, http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/aeroblks/aero_si9.html

Aerospace Blockset Working with FlightGear Aircraft Geometry Models Attaching your Simulink model to FlightGear is a simple process. The essential step is to create or modify the top-level aircraft description file to indicate that the flight dynamics model (FDM) is external to FlightGear. Aircraft models are located in directories under the FlightGearRoot directory. A complete aircraft model consists of a directory linked through the required aircraft master file named model . All other elements are optional. Default behaviors exist when these elements are not used (for example, default sound: no vehicle-related sounds are emitted, default instrument panel: no instruments are shown). The following is a partial list of the optional elements in an aircraft data directory: Vehicle objects and their shapes and colors Vehicle objects' surface bitmaps Variable geometry descriptions Cockpit instrument 3-D models Vehicle sounds to tie to events (e.g., engine, gear, wind noise) Flight dynamics model Simulator views Sub-models (independently movable items) associated with the vehicle Many 3-D aircraft geometry models are available for use with FlightGear. Models can contain some, all, or even none of the above elements. If you always run FlightGear from the cockpit view, the aircraft geometry is often secondary to the instrument geometries.

60. Fixed-wing Aircraft: Information From Answers.com fixedwing aircraft Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are days of their development, these were termed variable geometry aircraft. http://www.answers.com/topic/fixed-wing-aircraft

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping fixed-wing aircraft Wikipedia fixed-wing aircraft Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English Fixed-wing aircraft include monoplanes biplanes and triplanes ; in fact all conventional aircraft that are neither balloons airships autogyros helicopters or tiltrotors are fixed-wing aircraft. An American Airlines fixed-wing aircraft The term embraces a minority of aircraft that have folding wings, intended to fold when on the ground, perhaps to ease stowage or facilitate transport on, for example, a vehicle trailer or the powered lift connecting the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier to its flight deck. It also embraces an even smaller number of aircraft, such as the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark Grumman F-14 Tomcat and the Panavia Tornado , which can vary the sweep angle of their wings during flight. In the early days of their development, these were termed "variable geometry" aircraft. When the wings of these aircraft are fully swept, usually for high speed cruise, the trailing edges of their wings abut the leading edges of their tailplanes, giving an impression of a single

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