The Experimental Determination of the Electric Fields Surrounding a Model Aircraft.

Abstract

All aircraft collects electrostatic charges during flight, and use of the resultant electric fields has been proposed to initiate fuzing of antiaircraft projectiles. Plots of the resultant fields close to full-scale aircraft are difficult to obtain. An electrolytic tank may be used to measure these fields by using scaled models. Plots were made of the equipotential surfaces about an F4-J scaled aircraft and of potential differences (measure of potential gradient) between probes on prescribed trajectories past the scaled model. These data are presented in this report and can be used to estimate fuzing performance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA043257

Entities

People

  • Neil D. Wilkin

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Capacitance
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrostatic Charge
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Projectiles
  • Scale Models
  • Static Electricity
  • Trajectories
  • Voltage
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Plasma Physics.
  • ballistics.