In 1983, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board to conduct a workshop to provide an opportunity for innovative 'freethinkers' to come together and project the state of knowledge and capability in specific technological areas by the year 2000, assuming that adequate resources will be available. The workshop was organized into seven technology panels in aerodynamics; propulsion; structures; materials; guidance, navigation, and control; computer and information technology; and human factors. Using the projections of the technology panels, an eighth panel (in the area of systems integration) attempted to conceptualize how the projected technologies could be utilized/integrated to provide advanced aeronautical system capabilities. Their projections were viewed as serving several specific purposes: (1) providing a base for planning research and future facilities needed to support and capitalize fully on the projected technologies, as well as to develop advanced vehicles that might evolve; and (2) providing some insight on the possible state of the art in aeronautical technology by the year 2000 for civil and military planners of air vehicles and systems.
Aeronautics Technology Possibilities for 2000: Report of a Workshop
1984
243 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Aerodynamics , Aircraft , Guidance Systems , Navigation Systems , Aeronautics , Meetings , Predictions , Planning , Propulsion , Structures , Materials , Navigation , Guidance , Human factors engineering , Computers , Information systems , Systems management , Technological forecasting , Technology assessment