Charles Ira Coombs (1914–1994)
Autore di Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
Sull'Autore
Opere di Charles Ira Coombs
Aerospace Power 3 copie
Young Reader's Mystery Stories 2 copie
Project Mercury 2 copie
Ranch Mystery 2 copie
Young Readers Football Stories 1 copia
Baseball Stories 1 copia
Young Readers Atom Mystery 1 copia
Young readers sports treasury; 1 copia
Opere correlate
Everygirls Adventure Stories — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Coombs, Charles Ira
- Data di nascita
- 1914-06-27
- Data di morte
- 1994-02-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 82
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 443
- Popolarità
- #55,291
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 51
- Lingue
- 1
look at the human factors involved in the rapidly expanding field of terrestrial flight. Much of his material does cover the work being done to study the possibilities of space flight and this includes chapters on the G- load experiments of Col. Stapp as well as the psychological factors men must consider when floating in space. But for the most part his text is an excitingly presented consideration of test planes now being developed, of physical and mechanical problems tangential to flying beyond the speed of sound, of possibilities for civilian travel as well as military endeavors, of experiments such as the convertiplane (which may revolutionize air travel) and the pogo stick. A good layman's introduction made interesting by its suspenseful style and its speculations on the effect of machinery on man.… (altro)