Elaborate combination of techniques used to calibrate wind-measuring instrumentation aboard F104 airplane. Obtains wind profiles more rapidly. Airplane equipped with standard NACA research nose boom, including pressure probes and flow vanes yielding data on static and total pressures, angle of attack, and angle of sideslip. Has ring-laser-gyroscope inertial reference unit, giving linear and angular velocities, linear acceleration, and orientation of airplane. Body-mounted total-temperature sensor also used. Improved method of calibration devised to determine whether winds aloft at and shortly after time of measurement allow safe launch of Space Shuttle. Proves beneficial in other safety- or research-oriented applications in which wind velocities over range of altitudes must be determined in nearly real time.


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    Title :

    Calibrating Airplane Instrumentation To Measure Winds


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    1993-02-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English




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