Theoretical considerations of inflation of parachute in incompressible flow indicate that given parachute should open in fixed distance, regardless of altitude or velocity at which it is deployed; limited test data on solid, flat, and 15% flat extended skirt type parachute of 24 ft diam deployed at conditions ranging from Mach 0.2 at low altitude to Mach 0.86 at 52,000 ft altitude indicate that prediction is correct; paper demonstrates that more rational model for incompressible flow inflation of parachute is attained by considering parachute radius as function of distance traveled during inflation process.


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    Title :

    Inflation of parachute


    Additional title:

    AIAA J


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 1 , n 11


    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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