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《Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere》
Stratonauts:冒险进入平流层的先锋
作者:
Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried
Lago Vista
Texas , USA
出版社:Springer
出版时间:2014年
《Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere》
《Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere》
《Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere》
《Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere》
目录
Dedication .................................................................................................................. v
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... ix
Author’s preface ........................................................................................................ xi
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
2 The atmosphere ................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Troposphere ............................................................................................... 6
2.2 Stratosphere ................................................................................................ 6
2.3 Mesosphere ................................................................................................ 7
2.4 Thermosphere/exosphere ........................................................................... 7
3 The problems ..................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Pressure ...................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Temperature ............................................................................................... 11
3.3 G-loads ....................................................................................................... 12
3.4 Medical ...................................................................................................... 13
3.5 Operational ................................................................................................. 14
3.5.1 Coffi n Corner/Mach Tuck .............................................................. 15
3.5.2 Ejection .......................................................................................... 17
3.5.3 Inertia coupling .............................................................................. 18
3.5.4 Shock waves................................................................................... 18
4 Pressure suit history .......................................................................................... 21
4.1 Turn of the century ..................................................................................... 21
4.2 World War I ................................................................................................ 22
4.3 Pre-World War II ........................................................................................ 22
4.4 World War II .............................................................................................. 23
4.5 Jet/rocket age ............................................................................................. 24
4.6 Space age ................................................................................................... 25
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5 The ancient would-be stratonauts ................................................................... 27
5.1 Legends ...................................................................................................... 27
5.2 The Renaissance ......................................................................................... 28
5.3 The Montgolfi er brothers and Pilatre de Rozier ........................................ 29
5.4 The French Aerostatic Corps ..................................................................... 32
6 The early war years .......................................................................................... 35
6.1 Civil War aeronauts .................................................................................... 35
6.2 Pre-World War I ......................................................................................... 36
6.3 The scientists .............................................................................................. 38
6.4 Pre-war aviation records ............................................................................ 39
6.5 World War I ................................................................................................ 40
7 The roaring ’20s, ’30s and ’40s ........................................................................ 43
7.1 The Piccards ............................................................................................... 43
7.2 Soviet efforts .............................................................................................. 45
7.2.1 USSR-1 .......................................................................................... 45
7.2.2 Osoaviakhim-1 ............................................................................... 46
7.2.3 USSR-2 .......................................................................................... 47
7.2.4 USSR-1bis ..................................................................................... 47
7.2.5 USSR-3 .......................................................................................... 47
7.3 American efforts ........................................................................................ 48
7.3.1 “Century of Progress” .................................................................... 48
7.3.2 Explorer II ...................................................................................... 48
7.3.3 Wiley Post ...................................................................................... 49
7.4 Italian efforts .............................................................................................. 51
7.5 Summary of the interwar years .................................................................. 53
7.6 World War II .............................................................................................. 53
8 The experimental pilots .................................................................................... 55
8.1 The X series ............................................................................................... 55
8.1.1 Bell X-1 ......................................................................................... 56
8.1.2 Bell X-2 ......................................................................................... 58
8.1.3 Bell X-3 ......................................................................................... 59
8.1.4 Douglas Skystreak and Skyrocket ................................................. 62
8.2 Bell/Douglas X series summary ................................................................. 64
8.3 North American X-15 ................................................................................ 64
9 The U-2 stratonauts .......................................................................................... 71
9.1 The CIA ..................................................................................................... 71
9.2 Learning to tame the Dragon Lady ............................................................ 72
9.3 Flying over the Soviet Union ..................................................................... 73
9.4 Flying over Cuba ........................................................................................ 77
9.5 Flying over China ....................................................................................... 79
9.6 Fifty years later .......................................................................................... 83
9.7 NASA ER-2 ............................................................................................... 84
Contents xv
10 The Blackbird stratonauts ............................................................................... 87
10.1 Historical background .............................................................................. 87
10.2 A-12 OXCART ........................................................................................ 89
10.3 YF-12A .................................................................................................... 97
10.4 M-21 ......................................................................................................... 103
10.5 SR-71 ....................................................................................................... 103
10.6 Blackbird summary .................................................................................. 110
11 The long wing stratonauts ................................................................................ 115
11.1 History ...................................................................................................... 115
11.2 USAF B-57 variants ................................................................................. 116
11.3 NASA’S RB/WB-57F .............................................................................. 120
12 Other unique high altitude aircraft ................................................................. 127
12.1 British ....................................................................................................... 127
12.1.1 English Electric Canberra .......................................................... 127
12.1.2 Avro Vulcan ................................................................................ 128
12.2 Russian ..................................................................................................... 128
12.2.1 MiG-25 ....................................................................................... 128
12.2.2 M-17/M-55 ................................................................................. 129
12.3 German ..................................................................................................... 131
12.4 American .................................................................................................. 133
12.4.1 F-104 .......................................................................................... 133
12.4.2 SpaceShipOne ............................................................................ 135
12.5 Supersonic transports ............................................................................... 137
12.6 Perlan Project sailplanes .......................................................................... 138
12.6.1 The science ................................................................................. 138
12.6.2 Perlan I ....................................................................................... 139
12.6.3 Perlan II ...................................................................................... 140
13 Modern aeronauts ............................................................................................. 143
13.1 Project Strato-Lab .................................................................................... 143
13.2 Project Manhigh ....................................................................................... 144
13.3 Project Excelsior ...................................................................................... 149
13.4 The Volga tragedy .................................................................................... 152
13.5 Project Stargazer ...................................................................................... 154
13.6 Strato Jump I/II/III ................................................................................... 155
13.7 Red Bull Stratos ....................................................................................... 156
13.7.1 Organization ............................................................................... 156
13.7.2 Capsule ....................................................................................... 157
13.7.3 Balloon ....................................................................................... 157
13.7.4 Pressure suit ............................................................................... 158
13.7.5 Recovery..................................................................................... 160
13.7.6 Mission Control .......................................................................... 160
13.7.7 Summary .................................................................................... 160
13.8 Hot air balloons ........................................................................................ 163
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14 Qualifi cations and training............................................................................... 165
14.1 The pioneers ............................................................................................. 165
14.2 Chuck Yeager’s training ........................................................................... 167
14.3 A CIA pilot’s training .............................................................................. 167
14.4 Test pilot school ....................................................................................... 169
14.5 U-2 pilot training ...................................................................................... 170
14.6 RB/WB-57F training ................................................................................ 171
15 Summary ............................................................................................................ 173
15.1 History ...................................................................................................... 173
15.2 Defi nitions of a stratonaut ........................................................................ 175
15.2.1 Pioneering scientists stratonauts ................................................ 176
15.2.2 Pioneering stratonauts in open cockpit aircraft .......................... 177
15.2.3 Pioneering stratonauts in closed cockpit aircraft ....................... 177
15.2.4 Pioneering stratonauts in balloons ............................................. 178
15.2.5 Modern stratonauts in aircraft and rocket ships ......................... 178
15.2.6 Modern stratonauts in balloons .................................................. 180
15.2.7 Modern stratonauts in sailplanes ................................................ 182
15.2.8 Stratonauts killed while fl ying ................................................... 182
15.3 Summary .................................................................................................. 185
Appendix 1: Internet links ......................................................................................... 187
Appendix 2: Feeding stratonauts ............................................................................... 193
Appendix 3: Area 51 .................................................................................................. 197
Appendix 4: Interesting trivia .................................................................................... 207
Credits ........................................................................................................................ 215
Glossary ..................................................................................................................... 221
About the author ....................................................................................................... 227
Index ........................................................................................................................... 229
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