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Guidance systems (Flight)

Here are entered works on systems for supervising the navigation of aircraft and space vehicles from one location to another. Works on systems which govern aircraft and space vehicle attitude, stability, and direction of motion are entered under Flight control.

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• Aeronautical instruments
• Automatic control
• Navigation (Aeronautics)
• Remote control

• Flight control

• Flight-Determined Aerodynamic Properties of a Jet-Augmented, Auxiliary-Flap, Direct-Lift-Control System Including Correlation With Wind-Tunnel Results (NASA Technical Note D-5128, corrected copy; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969), by L. Stewart Rolls, Anthony M. Cook, and Robert C. Innis
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Supersonic Speeds of a Canard-Controlled Missile with Fixed and Free-Rolling Tail Fins (NASA Technical Paper 1316; 1978), by A. B. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Fly-by-Wire Project, by James E. Tomayko (PDF at NASA)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Supersonic Speeds of a Canard-Controlled Missile with Fixed and Free-Rolling Tail Fins (NASA Technical Paper 1316; 1978), by A. B. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blind Flight in Theory and Practice (third printing; San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Co., 1934), by William C. Ocker and Carl J. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Microsoft Flight Simulator Handbook (1995), by Jonathan M. Stern (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• Flying on Instruments with Flight Simulator (1987), by Jonathan M. Stern (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), by Erik M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Development of Military Night Aviation to 1919 (Maxwell AFL, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by William Edward Fischer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems (2002), ed. by Richard M. Murray (PDF files at Caltech)
• Fuzzy Control (c1998), by Kevin M. Passino and Stephen Yurkovich (PDF at Ohio State)
• Tyniacs: Tiny Electric Brain Machines, and How to Make Them; Also, Manual for Tyniac Electric Construction Kit (K2) (New York: Berkeley Enterprises, 1956), by Edmund Callis Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Automatic Controls (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954), by Millard Hartley La Joy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Principles of Control Systems Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by Vincent Del Toro and Sydney R. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical Design of Linear Feedback Controls (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by George C. Newton, Leonard A. Gould, and James F. Kaiser (page images at HathiTrust)

• Latin American Applied Research (partial serial archives)

• Automatic Frequency Control Systems (New York: J. F. Rider, c1937), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• An Hour a Day With Rider on Automatic Volume Control in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1936), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants: Safety and Reliability Issues (1997), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2008), by Karl J. Åström and Richard M. Murray (PDF at Caltech)
• Synthesis of Feedback Systems (New York and London: Academic Press, 1963), by Isaac M. Horowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control, by M. Seron, J. Braslavsky, and Graham C. Goodwin (PDF in Australia)

• Journal of Neurotherapy (partial serial archives)

• Skeletal Muscle Circulation (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2011), by Ronald J. Korthuis (HTML at NIH)
• The Gastrointestinal Circulation (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2010), by Peter R. Kvietys (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Calore Animalium (Glasgow: Excudebant Rob. et And. Foulis Academiae Typographi, 1755), by Jacobus Garner (page images at NIH)

• Aim for a Healthy Weight (2005), by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Maternal Control of Development in Vertebrates: My Mother Made Me Do It! (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2010), by Florence Louise Marlow (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)

• Regulation of Cardiac Contractility (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences; 2011), by R. John Solaro (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Recombinant Erythropoietin: Payment Options for Medicare (OTA-H-451; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Riesen Kommen!! (The Food of the Gods in German; Minden in Westphalia: J. C. C. Bruns, ca. 1904), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Frederick Philip Grove
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• FGF Signalling in Vertebrate Development (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2010), by Mary Elizabeth Pownall and Harry V. Isaacs (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1948), by Norbert Wiener (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control (1993), ed. by Panos J. Antsaklis and Kevin M. Passino (PDF files at nd.edu)

• Introduction to Digital Logic, With Laboratory Exercises (Global Text Project, c2010), by James Feher (PDF with commentary at textbookequity.org)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Practical Air Navigation (second edition; Washington: GPO, 1945), by Thoburn C. Lyon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Hatton Turnor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland, in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni (London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Bell, 1786), by Vincent Lunardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870), by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (London et al.: Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d.), by Fulgence Marion (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.