An apparatus is presented for alleviating high angle-of-attack side force on slender pointed cylindrical forebodies such as fighter aircraft, missiles and the like employing a symmetrical pair of helical separation trips to disrupt the leeside vortices normally attained. The novelty of the invention appears to reside in the use of a pair of symmetrical separation trips to force boundary layer separation and thereby disrupt the leeside vortices normally attained on slender pointed cylindrical forebodies such as fighter aircraft and missiles to thereby alleviate high angle of attack side forces and yawing moments.


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    Title :

    Aerodynamic Side-Force Alleviator Means


    Contributors:
    D. M. Rao (author)

    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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