Flush airdata sensing (FADS) system calibration procedures and results for blunt forebodies

9th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Cobleigh, Brent R ^a   Whitmore, Stephen A ^a   Haering, Edward A ^a   Borrer, Jerry ^b   Roback, V Eric ^c  

^a NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; LOCATION; MACH NUMBER; NASA; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

ANGLES OF ATTACK; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; MONOTONIC FUNCTIONS; PRESSURE MODELING; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SURFACE PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; TRANSONIC SPEED;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 85088754361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-4816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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