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1 The Air Transport Revolution: A Selective Review Dr. Richard P. Hallion Aero 2050 Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board 11 October 2017

2 The Aerospace Revolution st Powered, Sustained, & Controlled Flight st Liquid Fuel Rocket Flight st Intercontinental Airliner st Turbojet Airplane st Ballistic Missile st Jet Transport st Earth Satellite st Transatlantic Jet Travel st Wide-body Jumbo Jet (the B-747) st Reusable Routine Space Access System st GPS Block II Satellite launch st Global-Ranging Intercontinental RPA st Thermally Balanced Hypersonic Scramjet

3 Aviation Progression: One View Mach Number PISTON FIGHTERS PISTON AIRLINERS and BOMBERS ROCKET AIRCRAFT JET FIGHTERS JET AIRLINERS and BOMBERS Plateau

4 A Merger of Revolutions Mach Number an ostensible Plateau, but a revolution in capabilities (JET FIGHTERS) COMPOSITES; LARGE FANJET; T/W = 1+; DFBW; STEALTH; SUPERCRITICAL WING; GPS; UAV; SENSORS; C4ISR; ETC. (JET AIRLINERS) AND NEXT?

5 From Subsonic to Supersonic Deperdussin Monocoque Douglas DC-1 Boeing 707 Lockheed Blackbird Photographs courtesy The Boeing Company, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, and the Musée de l Air et l'éspace, Le Bourget

6 17 December 1903 Powered, Sustained, and Controlled Flight Aero 2050

7 17 December 1903 Powered, Sustained, and Controlled Flight Inherently unstable design Overemphasis on control over stability Too wedded to a single design concept Aero 2050

8 Deperdussin Monocoque Racer, AFHRA 8

9 Zeppelin-Staaken [Rohrbach]E.4/20 Sep-Oct 1920 Library of Congress 9

10 Birthing the Safe & Economical Airliner Lockheed Vega Boeing Monomail Boeing 247 Douglas DC-1

11 The DC-1: America s First Scientific Airplane Douglas DC-1 on early test flight, 1933 NASM Photo Aero 2050

12 In contrast (Handley Page H.P. 42) Aero 2050

13 America Has a Dual Use Industrial Base MILITARY CIVIL

14 Wartime Production in Perspective Country Number of Aircraft United States 299,293 Soviet Union 142,775 Great Britain 117,479 Nazi Germany 111,787 Imperial Japan 68,057 Fascist Italy 11,508 an almost 3 : 1 Allied advantage

15 that Generated Profound Military Effects Civil Air Power Military Air Power Reconnaissance Air Superiority Strategic Bombing Tactical Attack Sea Control Airlift Aero 2050

16 The Spaceflight Revolution Opel Rak-1, 1929 Robert Goddard, 1926 V-2 on Transporter, 1944

17 1935: Advent of the High-Speed Sweptwing Presented at the 1935 Volta Conference by Adolf Busemann 1940 Test of Winged A-4 Derivative at Peenemünde AF AEDC Photo

18 The Arrival of the Jet Age Heinkel He 178 (1939) Gloster E.28/39 (1941) Bell XP-59A (1942) Messerschmitt Me 262 (1944)

19 Through the Sound Barrier Clockwise: X-1A, D-558-1, XF-92A, X-5, D-558-2, X-4, center X-3 (1953) NASA Photo

20 Creative Incrementalism Leader-Follower Relationship from Fighter to Transport F-86 B-47 Applying the Sweptwing to Military and Commercial Aviation

21 1954: Advent of the Boeing Aero 2050 Boeing

22 America s Postwar Air Supremacy Global Reach Global Power Naval Superiority Mach 3+ Cruise Hypersonics Stealth Aero 2050

23 The Arrival of the Jumbo Aero 2050 Boeing

24 Premature Supersonics Aero 2050 NASA

25 Advent of the Supercritical Wing NASA F-8 with Whitcomb Supercritical Wing, 1971 Aero 2050 NASA

26 Over Seventy Years of Effort V-2/A-4b Bumper-WAC Titan X-17 SPACE Sänger-Bredt Atlas HSFS Mercury Alpha Draco X-20 Gemini ASSET BGRV X-15 Apollo The Confluence of Air and Space PRIME X-24C/ NHFRF STS-1 NASP DC-X X-33 X-43H-Soar X-51 AIR X-1 Tsien D Ames X-2 X-7 SM-64 ASP A-12 XB-70A M2F HL-10 X-24A X-24B Missile/Space Projects Aeronautics R & D Projects Hypersonic Test Projects Hypersonic Studies R. P. HALLION, SAF/AAZ,

27 X-51 Scramjet Flight Test, AFFTC

28 Transformations in Normative Design Practice Aerodynamics From Emulating Birds to Applied Mathematics to CFD Straight to Swept to Supercritical to Blended Materials/Structures Wood to Wood/Metal to Metal/Composite to Composite Propulsion From piston to pure-jet to prop-jet to fanjet to scramjet Controls From mechanical to augmented to electronic Instrumentation From flight safety to mission-enabling Systems Aircraft becomes an integrated system within systems Aero 2050

29 A Possible Future but Will It be Ours? 10,000 1,000 LONG-RANGE MOBILITY RATES SINCE MPH 10 MIGHT WE NOT ENTER THE 22 ND CENTURY AT 6,000 MPH?? Aero 2050

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