Lec 11 MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
Let's see. The original schedule today had Colonel Gordon Fullerton going to come and talk to us about both cockpit design, but primarily about test flying the Shuttle. Unfortunately, he is in charge of Flight Operations. Well, not unfortunately. He is in charge of Flight Operations at Dryden Flight Research Center for NASA. Unfortunately for us, since the time that we had agreed on this date, they scheduled, at the beginning of next week, a major base inspection. And if any of you are connected with the military you know what that involves. And, since he is head of flight operations, he really has to be there to make sure that they are ready for it. He has rescheduled. He will be here in November. And I will make adjustments to the syllabus. On Thursday, Bob Ried is going to talk about aerothermodynamics. And what I thought I would do today is kind of a potpourri maybe doing a little bit of recap on where we've gotten to so far. And also I brought a few videos ju...