During the past century. human flighthas evolved from a 12-second
glide
over the dunes
of
Kitty Hawk,
to
land-ings on the Moon,
to
long and compli-cated orbital missions aboard the SpaceShuttle. to six month stays
on
the In-ternational Space Station. During thelast four decades ofthis saga. Dr. Ken-neth
W.
IlitT has been
one
of
the world'sforemost practitioners
of
flight re-search. Known internationally
as
thepioneer of parameter estimation, IlitTparticipated
as a
young engineer in the
X-
15
flights and contributed substan-tially
to
the famed lifting body pro-grams. Dr. Iliff also worked for
25
years
on
the aerodynamics and tlightcharacteristics of the Shuttle Orbiter.In this conversational and lively mem-oir, Kenneth Ilifftells the personal stay
-
hich is also a national story
-of
finding
a
way to realize the dream
of
flying
in
the next dimension, directfrom ninway to orbit.
Kenneth W.
lliff
Dr. I<enncth
W.
lliff
has
had
a
longand clistinguishrd
c;ircc'r
in
the field
01
flight rcxcarch. Accluiniccl for hispioneering work
on
parameter estiiiia-tion, he
hcgan
at
the
NASA
DrydenFlight
Research
Center
in
1962
and
From
Runway
to
Orbit
NASA
SP
2004-4 I09
From
Runway
to Orbit:
Reflections
of
a
NASA
Engineer
Kenneth
W.
Iliff
and
Curtis
L.
Peebles
The
NASA
History
Series
National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA History OfficeWashington,
D.C.
20546
2004
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