Recent Experimental Efforts in Store Separation at DTNSRDC,

Abstract

In the early 1960's much of the philosophy and procedures used today for captive trajectory testing was developed at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center (DTNSRDC). After limited use of these procedures in the late 1960's and early 1970's, the system was inactive for several years. In the past few years, work in this area has been restarted, and several programs have been completed. The support system has been used in the captive trajectory (CTS) mode, grid mode, and pressure survey mode. Extremely good agreement has been seen for CTS data when compared with flight test results. These data have been used to guide flight test planning and to study control system acceptability. Grid data, collected on several stores, provided the means to investigate control systems and to parametrically examine other launch variables. In addition, pressure field data have been generated in support of analytical separation programs. In some cases, scale problems were encountered and have been successfully solved. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111775

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  • Kenneth A. Phillips

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  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Computational Science
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flow Fields
  • Inboard
  • Mach Number
  • Models
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Simulations
  • Trajectories
  • Wind Tunnel Models
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

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