A full-scale model of a supersonic STOVL single engine flighter aircraft employing an ejector to augment lift in hover and in low-speed flight was tested in the 40- by 80-ft and 80- by 120-ft test sections of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex located at the NASA Ames Research Center. The measured ejector augmentation ratio in hover met the design requirement of 1.6 and continued to provide the lift necessary in forward flight for good transition qualities. The up-and-away aerodynamics (ejector system stowed) were found to be conventional for this class of vehicle. The pitch control provided by the full-span blown flaps is sufficient to control the large pitching moments generated by ventral exhaust nozzle vectoring and propulsion induced aerodynamic effects such as the turning of the flow entrained into the ejectors.


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    Title :

    Large-scale wind tunnel studies of a jet-engined powered ejector-lift STOVL aircraft


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Powered Lift Conference ; 1990 ; London


    Publication date :

    1990-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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