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By Sheryll Goecke Powers, NASA History Division
First released in 1997 as quantity 6 within the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace historical past" sequence. This examine includes pictures and illustrations.
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Tt The "prime" (for example, P'H) was 52 ibility effects. ttt HRadar, in feet, was a geometrical altitude obtained from a radar track of the airplane. Both the static pressures (P parameters) and impact pressures (qc parameters) are in inches of mercury. PH was obtained from a pressure survey that related the geometrical altitude to a static pressure. * The X-I airplane was tracked by radar through the same geometric-altitude range as that previously flown by the B-29 airplane. The geometrical altitude of the X-I airplane was then used to determine PH- M' (column 7) was obtained from tablesH using the values in column 6, and M (column 10) was obtained from a table using the values in column 9.
From 1960 on, the name changes were not a problem for me. The name changes could certainly be confusing for somebody who did not personally know most of these women. Because of this, I have included the names found as authors or in documents t that included the women working at Dlyden. As a point of interest, six of the women presently working at Dryden in the technical field were in its co-op program. Throughout the years, quite a few women have been in the coop program, but I do not know the number.
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