Aerospace Design:
The Art of Engineering
From NASA’s Aeronautical Research
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
New York, NY
The exhibition is on view through December 17, 2005.
“As an exploration of the connections between industrial design, architecture, engineering, and technology, this show emphasizes the significance of interdisciplinary thinking in creating innovative design solutions.”
Thomas F. Schutte
Pratt President
Photo courtesy of NASA
Flight Research Helios
The exhibition features objects from NASA’s collection, on view for the first time, and document progress made in aviation architecture and design during the last 100 years.
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Lockheed SR-71 in flight, 1995
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Future Flight Blended
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Future Flight Mars
Nearly 100 wind-tunnel models and artefacts from the federal agency’s collection illustrates the importance of industrial designers as well as aeronautical specialists in creating the conceptual aircraft of the future.
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AST (Advanced Supersonic Transport) model in Langley full-scale wind tunnel, 1975
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Rehabilitation of the Transonic Wind Tunnel, 1990
Langley Research Center
Some of the objects in the exhibition, which include wind-tunnel models and flight-test artefacts, date back to NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), founded in 1915.
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View of the Propeller Research Tunnel at the Langley Research Center, 1927
Designed by the Austin Company
“The purpose of the exhibition is to demonstrate that aerospace design is more than a matter of nuts, bolts, and rivets. Visual artists have had as much to do with the development and overall image of aviation and space travel in the last century as have aerospace engineers.
Objects made for aeronautical engineering purposes, such as wind-tunnel models, as well as the aircraft themselves, are strikingly aesthetic.”
John Zukowsky
Co-curator
"Aerospace Design” exhibition for the Art Institute of Chicago.
The exhibition is presented by Pratt Institute and the Aerospace Technology Enterprise of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Photo courtesy of NASA
NASA Pilots
More information: Pratt Institute
Book
Aerospace Design:
Aircraft, Spacecraft and the Art of Modern Flight
By Anthony M. Springer
Co-author John Zukowsky
Publisher: Merrell
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