TEST AND EVALUATION OF AQM-37A,

Abstract

Flight test 84 of the AQM-37A target was the nineteenh flight test conducted for contractor demonstration and the first flight test conducted utilizing a supersonic target launch. The target was telemetry configured and was flown with a planned cruise altitude and speed of 85,000 feet and 3.0 Mach, respectively. A 28-second duation timer was installed in the booster cut-off circuit in order to attain the required booster cut off speed of 3.5 Mach. The altitude transducer was replaced with a transducer having the increased sensitivity required for an 85,000-foot flight environment. The flight control system gains were similar to those which are used in standard production targets except for the delta H and pitch gains which were increased from 0.00005 to 0.000064 and 0.5 to 0.6, respectively. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 06, 1964
Accession Number
AD0442248

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Contractors
  • Control Systems
  • Demonstrations
  • Environment
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Production
  • Sensitivity
  • Standards
  • Telemetry
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow