Behind-the-scenes workshop and on-track race action photography combine with a succinct narrative to illuminate the key technological aspects of the modern F1 car. All of today's leading cars are featured, together with those less-than-successful cars which, nonetheless, exhibit a high-degree of technological innovation. A complete rundown of current technology, from the windtunnel to the track, includes: -- Modern computer-aided design methods-- Pattern- and mould-making, and carbon composite layups-- Considerations and processes behind the development of primary performance features such as engines brakes, fuel and electrical systems, cockpit environments, tires, and suspension layouts-- The racetrack environment, including refueling rigs and crash-rescue: equipment
Explains how a Formula One automobile is designed, built, and raced, and covers the business plan, driver selection, computer-assisted design, windtunnel testing, aerodynamics, safety engineering, and pre-race testing
In detailed text with over 70 photos and specially commissioned illustrations, this title explores the development of the cruise missile in general, examines the Tomahawk in particular, and casts a glance into the future of this high-tech, cutting-edge weapon.
This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.
Features the 50 aircraft types used by NASA today for aeronautical research, as flying platforms and as support for the US space programme. The book includes sailplanes, light aircraft, transports, helicopters, fast jets and purpose-built research vehicles.
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