Review of Flight-to-Wind-Tunnel Drag Correlation Edwin

Abstract

Mr. Saltzman is employed as a performance-aerodynamics engineer for the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility. He has been involved with the in-flight measurement, analysis, and documentation of aircraft performance and efficiency since 1958, the formation of NASA. Prior to that time he performed similar tasks, since 1951, with the High Speed Flight Station of NACA, the parent agency of NASA. Since 1972, Mr. Saltzman's interests in aircraft efficiency have also led him to perform experimental work on ground vehicles, primarily studying practical methods of reducing the drag of high volume vehicles such as trucks and motor homes. He received a B.S. in Physics from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1950. Ted Ayers has 24 years of government service including 17 years at the NASA Langley Research Center. He has a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Northrop Institute of Technology and has devoted most of his career to research in transonic aerodynamics with emphasis on the application of supercritical aerodynamics to high performance aircraft. His Langley experience also included the systems technology aspects of advanced technology transports including the integration of aerodynamics, propulsion, and controls. In 1976, Mr. Ayers transferred to the NASA Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center where he served as the Chief of the Aeronautics Branch with responsibility for flight research in the Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Structures disciplines. He is presently the Deputy Director of Flight Operations for Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility. Mr. Ayers is a Member of AIAA.