Dr. Johnson on Aeronautics

The Ailments and Physicians of Dr. Johnson *

Boswell and other writers have made Johnson probably the most intimately known man of all time. His medical history is almost as explicit. With the exception of the period from early manhood to middle age-in general, a time lacking in medical incidents-we can follow his case history from before birth through his autopsy two days after death. Johnson's mother was forty years old when she had her...

2 NASA Aeronautics Blueprint NASA unveiled the Aeronautics

NASA’s Aeronautics Blueprint lays out a research agenda for the Agency’s aeronautics program. The word software appears only four times in this Blueprint, but the critical importance of safe and correct software to the fulfillment of the proposed research is evident on almost every page. Most of the technology solutions proposed to address challenges in aviation are softwaredependent technologi...

On the Johnson - Neyman

The Johnson-Neyman technique is a statistical tool used most frequently in educational and psychological applications. This paper starts by briefly reviewing the JohnsonNeyman technique and suggesting when it should and should not be used; then several different modifications and extensions of the Johnson-Neyman technique, all of them conceptually simple, are proposed. The close relation betwee...

Aeronautics and Astronautics

TOPICS RELATED TO ROTORCRAFTAND VERTICAL FLIGHT: The rotary wing program led by Professor Wood has worked in the following areas: Professors Wood's and Danielson's and research for 1999 and 2000 is focused on developing the capability of modeling the effects of a 23mm HEI (high explosive incendiary) inside the Comanche helicopter. Recent work at NPS has resulted in a new and powerful tool for e...

Dr. Samuel Johnson: His Medical History as Recorded by James Boswell.