Real-time flight test analysis and display techniques for the X-29A aircraft

The X-29A advanced technology demonstrator flight envelope expansion program and the subsequent flight research phase gave impetus to the development of several innovative real-time analysis and display techniques. These new techniques produced significant improvements in flight test productivity, flight research capabilities, and flight safety. These techniques include real-time measurement and display of in-flight structural loads, dynamic structural mode frequency and damping, flight control system dynamic stability and control response, aeroperformance drag polars, and aircraft specific excess power. Several of these analysis techniques also provided for direct comparisons of flight-measured results with analytical predictions. The aeroperformance technique was made possible by the concurrent development of a new simplified in-flight net thrust computation method. To achieve these levels of on-line flight test analysis, integration of ground and airborne systems was required. The capability of NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility's Western Aeronautical Test Range was a key factor in enabling implementation of these methods

Race, Place, and Religion: African American Missionaries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This paper attempts to provide a more complete analysis of the various conceptions of race and identity held by African American missionaries working in Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there has been some attention paid to African American missionaries working in Africa at this time, very little has been written about how their different theological beliefs impacted their conceptions of race and identity as it is related to the native African population they are interacting with. Through thorough analysis, it can be determined that there were distinct links between the different theological beliefs held by African American missionaries working in Africa at this time and their conceptions of race. For example, evangelical African American missionaries more often associated themselves with a Pan-African identity than non-evangelical ones. Alongside this, their theological understandings of the Back-to-Africa movement were quite different depending on where they worked in Africa and it impacted how they viewed themselves in association with the native African populations they interacted with. Finally, different conceptions of race and identity manifested themselves along eschatological lines with different views on the means of attaining salvation correlating with opposing conceptions of race. The significance of these findings is that although these missionaries’ conceptions of race have already been analyzed, the connection to their theological beliefs is rather unexplored

Give My Regards to the Book

This project is an analysis of the construction of American Musical Theatre. The research for this project has been drawn from direct quotes and writings from Musical Theatre writers, scores and scripts, and from historical books. Reading of these sources reveal principles of Musical Theatre writing which the authors use and the audience expects. This project analyzes how the book, lyrics, and music to a show are written and demonstrates that the writing of Musical Theatre has developed its own unique craft which is grounded in the book

What Are the Hills Really Alive With?: Spectacle versus Narrative Driven Musical Theatre

American Musical Theatre is known for its entertaining qualities, but what holds the audience’s attention to stick around for the second act? Is it the dance numbers, the fancy lighting, and the spectacular numbers or is it the story and the characters? Musical theatre always uses a combination of the two elements, but one of two tends to drive an individual musical forward and engage the audience\u27s attention. The conflict of emphasizing spectacle or narrative can bee seen initially at Musical Theatre\u27s conception all the way down to recent shows written by Webber and Sondheim. Spectacle can be understood as the dances, musical numbers, and effects in a show that are used to dazzle the audience. Narrative, on the other hand, is the use of storyline and character development to engage the audience. Through its history, musical theatre has combined these two forces and each show places a higher emphasis on one or the other