Charles Ira Coombs (1914–1994)
Autor de Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Charles Ira Coombs
Aerospace Power 3 copias
Young Readers Water Sports Stories 3 copias
Young Reader's Mystery Stories 2 copias
Project Mercury 2 copias
Ranch Mystery 2 copias
Young Readers Football Stories 1 copia
Baseball Stories 1 copia
Young Readers Atom Mystery 1 copia
Young readers sports treasury; 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Everygirls Adventure Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Coombs, Charles Ira
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-06-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1994-02-20
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 82
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 443
- Popularidad
- #55,291
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 51
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)