The calibrations of four airspeed systems installed in a North American F-86A airplane have been determined in flight at Mach numbers up to 1. 04 by the NACA radar-phototheodolite method. The variation of the static- pressure error per unit indicated impact pressure is presented for three systems typical of those currently in use in flight research, a nose boom and two different wing-tip booms, and for the standard service system installed in the airplane. A limited amount of information on the effect of airplane normal-force coefficient on the static-pressure error is included. The results are compared with available theory and with results from wind-tunnel tests of the airspeed heads alone. Of the systems investigated, a nose-boom installation was found to be most suitable for research use at transonic and low supersonic speeds because it provided the greatest sensitivity of the indicated Mach number to a unit change in true Mach number at very high subsonic speeds, and because it was least sensitive to changes in airplane normal-force coefficient. The static- pressure error of the nose-boom system was small and constant above a Mach number of 1.03 after passage of the fuselage bow shock wave over the airspeed head.


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    Title :

    Flight Calibration of Four Airspeed Systems on a Swept-Wing Airplane at Mach Numbers up to 1.04 by the NACA Radar-Phototheodolite Method


    Contributors:
    J. R. Thompson (author) / R. S. Bray (author) / G. E. Cooper (author)

    Publication date :

    1955


    Size :

    38 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English