The patent relates to an apparatus providing the simultaneous flight testing of a plurality of reentry vehicle nose tips of the same or of different configuration. A preferred embodiment of the flight testing apparatus includes: a reentry flight test vehicle having a front end (i.e., a nose tip end) and, suitable conventional means for removably mounting the reentry vehicle nose tips which are to be flight tested on, and around, the front end of the reentry test vehicle in a symmetrical pattern. The apparatus significantly reduces the cost, the time, the number of flight tests necessary, and the number of reentry vehicles needed, to evolve a satisfactory design of a reentry vehicle nose tip.
Reentry Vehicle Nose Tip Flight Testing Apparatus
1973
4 pages
Report
No indication
English
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