1/30 SCALE XSM-65A MISSILE BASE RECIRCULATION MODEL TESTS,

Abstract

As a result of the flight test observations, a scale model test program was initiated at the Thermodynamics Laboratories to determine whether recirculation of the turbine exhaust gases could occur under simulated flight conditions and to arrive at a suitable 'fix' if a problem was found to exist. One-thirtieth scale model tests of the Atlas missile base and turbine exhaust duct configuration have indicated a bent duct directed into the free stream should prevent recirculation and burning of hot turbine exhaust gases during low altitude, subsonic flight. A straight exhaust duct, extended approximately eight feet downstream of the base of the missile, would probably also provide reasonable assurance of no turbine exhaust gas recirculation. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1958
Accession Number
AD0829015

Entities

People

  • K. C. Hendershot
  • P. P. Leo

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Exhaust Gases
  • Flight
  • Free Stream
  • Gases
  • Low Altitude
  • Model Tests
  • Models
  • Scale Models
  • Subsonic Flight

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.