Conformal carriage represents a new method of carrying stores tangent to the fuselage of an aircraft. Nine to twelve individual bomb racks are housed in an aerodynamically smooth fairing beneath the aircraft fuselage, thus considerably reducing the drag of the installation with or without stores when compared to conventional MER/TER carriage. Supersonic flight with stores was demonstrated in previous tests. Improved separation characteristics were also predicted for this installation because the relatively flat surface should provide smoother air flow over the weapons and the rigid structure should permit higher ejection forces. Approximately 200 weapons were released at speeds of Mach 0.6 to 1.6 and altitudes of 5,000 to 30,000 ft MSL to test the predictions. Ripple and 30-deg dive releases were also investigated using Mk 82, Rockeye II, NSRDC bluff, and M117-M6 bluff bombs. (Author)
Conformal Carriage Flight Test Program. Part 2. Weapon Separation
1973
34 pages
Report
No indication
English
Bombs , Aircraft , Bomb racks , Fuselages , Fairings , Aerodynamic characteristics , Aerodynamic configurations , Jet fighters , Reduction , Drag , External stores , Supersonic flight , Flight testing , Separation , Gas flow , Ejection , Velocity , Low altitude bombing , High altitude bombing , Conformal carriages , F-4 aircraft , F-4b aircraft , Mark-82 bombs(500-lb.) , M-117m6 bombs(750-lb.) , Rockeye 2 bombs
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