Hyper-X flight engine ground testing for flight risk reduction

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 844-852

  Huebner, Lawrence D ^a,c   Rock, Kenneth E ^a,c   Ruf, Edward G ^a,c   Witte, David W ^a,c   Andrews, Earl H ^b,d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b FDC/NYMA   (United States)

^c Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; AIRFRAMES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; RAMJET ENGINES; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRFRAME INTEGRATED SCRAMJET ENGINE TESTING; FLIGHT ENGINE GROUND TESTING; FLIGHT RISK REDUCTION; HYPERSONIC AIRBREATHING PROPULSION; VEHICLE FLOWPATH SIMULATOR;

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035518192     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3774     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Hyper-X: Flight validation of hypersonic airbreathing propulsion
2. The Hyper-X program overview
3. NASA's Hyper-X scramjet engine ground test program
4. Hypersonic boundary-layer trip development for Hyper-X
5. Propulsion system airframe integration issues and aerodynamic database development for the Hyper-X research vehicle
6. Integrated aeropropulsive computational fluid dynamics methodology for the Hyper-X flight experiment