TY  - BOOK
AU  - Antón,Philip S.
AU  - Johnson,Dana J.
AU  - Block,Michael
AU  - Brown,Michael Scott
AU  - Drezner,Jeffrey A.
AU  - Dryden,J.A.
AU  - Gritton,E.C.
AU  - Hamilton,Thomas
AU  - Hogan,Thor
AU  - Mesic,Richard
AU  - Peetz,Deborah J.
AU  - Raman,Raj
AU  - Steinberg,Paul
AU  - Strong,Joe
AU  - Trimble,William P.G.
ED  - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.).
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Wind tunnel and propulsion test facilities: supporting analyses to an assessment of NASA's capabilities to serve national needs 
SN  - 0833036424 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - TL567.W5 W56 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - United States
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Research
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Airplanes
KW  - Jet propulsion
KW  - Testing
KW  - Wind tunnels
N1  - "National Defense Research Institute."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138); Introduction -- National Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facility Needs and NASA's Primary Facilities Serving These Needs -- Subsonic Wind Tunnels -- Transonic Wind Tunnels -- Supersonic Wind Tunnels -- Hypersonic Wind Tunnels -- Hypersonic Propulsion Integration Test Facilities -- Direct-Connect Propulsion Test Facilities; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) establishment and use of wind tunnel and propulsion test facilities have helped the United States build and maintain aerospace competitive advantage across the military, commercial, and space sectors. Are these major facilities continuing to serve the current and future needs of the nation at large? At the request of Congress and NASA, the RAND Corporation performed a yearlong study of the 31 such facilities at three NASA centers. The study examined current and future national needs for wind tunnel and propulsion test facilities, the technical competitiveness of NASA's facilities, functional overlap and redundancy among NASA facilities, and management issues. Through its findings, the RAND team provided many recommendations for NASA regarding the future of these facilities. This technical report supports a companion monograph (Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities: An Assessment of NASA's Capabilities to Serve National Needs, MG-178-NASA/OSD), providing more detailed data, observations, and conclusions
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR134/
ER  -