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TECHNOLOGY DETAIL : SPECIAL REPORT
FORMER USSR HIGH TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES
ISBN 1-899773-15-0
by Professor Paul A. Czysz
An EXPANDED SECOND EDITION of this PERCEPTIVE STUDY IDENTIFYING many ADVANCED or INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS, TECHNOLOGIES and APPROACHES which MERIT CLOSE INVESTIGATION by WESTERN HIGH TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS.
In recent years, Professor Czysz has made several major visits to States of the Former Soviet Union and gathers together here a catalogue of aerospace topics which he believes should be studied by the West as a matter of urgency. Many of the items dealt with could readily find immediate applications in the West (not only in the aerospace sector) and could endow capabilities that would otherwise only come after massive Western research and development investment. The products and technologies dealt with here include advanced aerodynamics, test facilities, hypersonic aircraft design, aerospace vehicles, robot manufacturing plant, unique metal alloys, rocket engine research and development, unique ceramics and new ceramic coatings, air-breathing engines, unique composite materials, unique thermal protection systems, non-destructive testing and diagnostics, gallium arsenide electronics, state-of-the-art RSR powder metallurgy, medical non-invasive diagnostics, low-drag wingtip design and fault-free robot generated software and firmware.
Highlights of the Report include analysis of the design/aerodynamics of the Buran space shuttle which is shown to fly at low angles of attack during re-entry utilising intense leading edge vortices, highly pragmatic non-recombinant thin thermal tiles and a water-rich underlying thermal margin. Many of the projects discussed involve the effective application of radical advances in mathematics and computer software including the Baikonur Energiya launch complex countdown and launch control system and the Buran space shuttle automated landing system. New aerodynamic research techniques are described such as a resin that delineates airflow on test models but freezes to give a 3-D flow record and a pressure sensitive phosphor that can be photographed to show 3-D pressure patterns on model articles. The Report also deals with automated vacuum fabrication systems that can weld, machine, test and certify articles as complex as main propellant tanks on the Energiya rocket launch vehicle.
265 pages, comb-bound A4 size, photographs, diagrams and charts. This revised Second Edition published in July 1999.
UK £540 or US $946
additional copies in one order to one address : second copy £270 or $473 : other extra copies £180 or $315
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