Strategy for developing air-breathing aerospace planes

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 377-385

  Mehta, Unmeel B ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; CALCULATIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; RAMJET ENGINES; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

AIR BREATHING AEROSPACE PLANES; GROUND TESTS; HYPERSONIC AIR BREATHING PROPULSION; MACH NUMBER; ROCKET PROPULSION;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES;

EID: 0030104944     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.46948     Document Type: Article

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