re space research spin off shafer rigel dfrf nasa gov mary shafer writes on apr prb access digex com pat said pat in article apr aurora alaska edu pat nsmca aurora alaska edu writes question is can someone give me examples of direct nasa space related research that helped humanity in general it will be interesting to see pat tang mylar i think i think they also pushed hi tech pat composites for airframes look at fly by wire swept wings if you fly in airliners you ve reaped the benefits didn t one of the early jet fighters have these i also think the germans did some work on these in wwii winglets area ruling digital fly by wire ride smoothing a lot of this was also done by the military microwave landing systems supercritical wings general aviation air foils weren t the first microwave landing systems from wwii too mary shafer dod kotfr nasa dryden flight research facility edwards ca shafer rigel dfrf nasa gov of course i don t speak for nasa a mig at your six is better than no mig at all unknown us fighter pilot egad i m disagreeing with mary shafer phil fraering seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff pgf srl cacs usl edu like how the ancient mayans had televison repo man
