A three year laser‐propelled vehicle analysis and design investigation has been begun in June, 2009 by Faculty and graduate students at the University of Adelaide under a Grant/Cooperative Agreement Award to the University of Adelaide by the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD). The major objectives of thsis investigation are: (a) development of hypersonic, air breathing “lightcraft” with innovative air inlets that enable acceptable airflow capture and combustion, and acceptable cowl‐lip heating rates during hot, high‐speed, high angle‐of‐attack hypersonic flight; (b) yest of the most promising lightcraft and inlet design in the high power laser beam that is part of the shock tunnel facility at CTO Instituto in Brazil; and (c) plan a series of laser guided and propelled flights that achieve supersonic or higher speed at the Woomera Test Facility (WTF) in South Australia—using the existing WTF launching and tracking facilities and sponsor‐provided laser pointing and tracking and illumination systems.
Australian Air Breathing Propulsion Research for Hypersonic, Beamed Energy‐Propelled Vehicles
BEAMED ENERGY PROPULSION: 6th International Symposium ; 2009 ; Scottsdale (Arizona)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 1230 , 1 ; 13-16
2010-05-06
4 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Australian Air Breathing Propulsion Research for Hypersonic, Beamed Energy-propelled Vehicles
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