Free-flight and wind-tunnel studies of deployment of a dynamically and elastically scaled inflatable parawing model /
by Alice T. Ferris and H. Neale Kelly.
Description
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English
- Published
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Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; 1968.
- Summary
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The deployment characteristics of a 1/8-size dynamically and elastically scaled model of an inflatable parawing suitable for the recovery of an Apollo-type spacecraft were investigated in free flight and in the Langley transonic dynamics tunnel using a model which was mounted to permit limited angular freedom. The deployments were of a passive type; that is, there was no powered reel-in or reel-out of the suspension lines. However, a braking system was used to attenuate the dynamic loads in the suspension lines. The deployment technique was developed in an initial series of wind-tunnel tests. By utilizing the equipment and technique evolved from the wind-tunnel studies, successful free-flight deployments were accomplished and the transient loads associated with the deployments were measured. These results were compared with the results of subsequent wind-tunnel tests.
- Note
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"September 1968."
"NASA Technical Note NASA TN D-4724."
"Langley Research Center Langley Station, Hampton, Va."
This work is part of the library's "Parachute History Collection", donated by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Institut für Flugsystemtechnik, through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerodynamic Deceleration Systems Technical Committee.
- Physical Description
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42 p. :
ill. ;
28 cm.
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