Invention in Aeronautics

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...

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...

Opportunistic Enterprises in Invention

This paper identifies goal handling processes that begin to account for the kind of processes involved in invention. We identify new goal properties and mechanisms for processing goals, as well as means of integrating opportunism, deliberation, and social interaction into goal/plan processes. We focus on enterprise goals, which extend traditional design goals and knowledge goals to address sign...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Innovations in Aeronautics 2004 AIAA Dryden Lecture

The first fifty years of aviation were punctuated with frequent innovations, transforming what were once daring stunts into an engine of our modern economy. The second fifty years seems to many, just a tuning of this engine, with significant, but evolutionary improvements. This paper considers possible innovations in aeronautics over the next fifty years and examines some of the technologies an...