On 6 Dec 2003 00:09:07 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

In article , rk wrote:

This will be a NASA History Publication.

summary

Runway to Orbit: Reflections of A NASA Engineer, by Dr. Kenneth Iliff, ushers
the reader through some of the pivotal aerospace projects undertaken by NASA
since the early 1960s. Iliff made critical contributions to research on the
X-15 aircraft, the lifting bodies, the XB-70 bomber, high angle-of-attack
aircraft, and the Space Shuttle, among others. His highly personal and
thoughtful narrative also describes his seminal contributions to parameter
estimation. Runway to Orbit is scheduled for publication in January 2004.

Certainly sounds worth seeking out...

I've read it. It's OK, I suppose, but it all seems so ordinary. It's
certainly not "Hypersonic" by Jenkins and Landis. It's just about
engineering.

It's got some nice photos. Although some of them haven't been
published much, a lot of them could have come right from my photo
collection. Ordinary, like I said.

The jacket painting is OK, probably the best thing about it. One of
the Dryden test pilots did it.

Someone told me that Amazon might carry it, even though it's GPO. I
don't know how that works.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer