Free-flight dynamic aero data for a lifting CEV capsule

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brown, Jeffrey D ^a   Bogdanoff, David W ^a   Yates, Leslie A ^b   Chapman, Gary T ^a  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Aerospace Computing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMES RESEARCH CENTERS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; CREW MODULE; FLIGHT AERODYNAMICS; HYPERVELOCITIES; NON-LINEAR AERODYNAMICS; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; SCALE MODELS; SIDESLIP ANGLES; SUPERSONIC SPEED; SYMMETRIC MODEL; TEST SECTIONS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DAMPING; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MACH NUMBER; NASA; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FREE FLIGHT;

EID: 78149443612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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