TEST AND EVALUATION OF A FLUIDIC THRUSTER FOR ROLL CONTROL OF AIR BREATHING MISSILES.
Abstract
A fluidic thruster designed for roll control of an air-breathing missile has been tested and evaluated. Since, for this particular application, the thruster receives its supply air from the engine air inlet duct, the thruster evaluation consisted of determining how efficiently the thruster diverts the high-energy air and exhausts it supersonically into the ambient atmosphere to generate the required roll control reaction forces. It is concluded that an array of four appropriately sized thrusters equally spaced about the diameter of a missile will develop adequate roll control torque for typical air-breathing missiles using a total of 1% of the engine air. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0693050
Entities
People
- T. M. Rankin
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory