The ALFLEX (Automatic Landing FLight EXperiment) vehicle is a 37% scale model of a future reentry vehicle. HOPE (H-II Orbiting Plane), and was developed for investigating the horizontal landing capability of the HOPE. The flight experiment was carried out at the Woomera Airfield in South Australia in 1996. Landing trials of the ALFLEX were realized by releasing the vehicle hung by a cable from a helicopter. After the release, the vehicle autonomously made path capture, equilibrium gliding on a -30 deg flight path, flare and touch-down on a runway. During the development phase, ground effects had been considered as key issues that affect the landing performance, and wind tunnel tests for predicting the ground effects had been carried out. For the purpose of validating the potential of the wind tunnel data for future designs, ground effect characteristics derived from the flight data and comparison with the wind tunnel data are given in this paper.
Ground Effects Obtained from Flight Tests of ALFLEX
1997
16 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , Aeronautics , Aerodynamics , Ground effects(Aerodynamics) , Horizontal spacecraft landing , Reentry vehicles , Flight tests , Aerospace planes , Automatic landing control , Aerodynamic characteristics , Flight characteristics , Touchdown , Flight paths , Foreign technology , ALFLEX(Automatic Landing Flight Experiment) , Automatic Landing Flight Experiment , HOPE(H-II Orbiting Plane)
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