Touchdown: The Development of Propulsion Controlled Aircraft at NASA Dryden

by Tom Tucker

This monograph relates the important history of the Propulsion Controlled Aircraft project at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. Spurred by a number of airplane crashes caused by the loss of hydraulic flight controls, a NASA-industry team lead by Frank W. Burcham and C. Gordon Fullerton developed a way to land an aircraft safely using only engine thrust to control the airplane.

62 pages, Paperback

First published July 18, 2012