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Title
  • en Development of a Small-scale Supersonic Flight Experiment Vehicle as a Flying Test Bed for Future Space Transportation Research
Creator
    • ja 溝端, 一秀 ja-Kana ミゾバタ, カズヒデ en MIZOBATA, Kazuhide
    • ja 湊, 亮二郎 ja-Kana ミナト, リョウジロウ en MINATO, Ryojiro
    • en HIGUCHI, Ken ja 樋口, 健 ja-Kana ヒグチ, ケン
    • ja 上羽, 正純 ja-Kana ウエバ, マサズミ en UEBA, Masazumi
    • en TAKAGI, Shohei ja 高木, 正平 ja-Kana タカギ, ショウヘイ
    • ja 中田, 大将 en NAKATA, Daisuke ja-Kana ナカタ, ダイスケ
    • ja 東野, 和幸 ja-Kana ヒガシノ, カズユキ en HIGASHINO, Kazuyuki
    • ja 棚次, 亘弘 ja-Kana タナツグ, ノブヒロ en TANATSUGU, Nobuhiro
Accessrights open access
Rights
  • en © 2014 JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
Subject
  • NDC 538
  • Other en Space Transportation
  • Other en Flying Test Bed
  • Other en Flight Test
  • Other en Supersonic
  • Other en Jet Propulsion
Description
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  • Abstract en Innovation in technologies for high-speed atmospheric flights is essential for establishment of both supersonic/hypersonic and reusable space transportations. It is quite effective to verify such technologies through small-scale flight tests in practical high-speed environments, prior to installation to large-scale vehicles. Thus we are developing a small-scale supersonic flight experiment vehicle as a flying test bed. Several aerodynamic configurations are proposed and analyzed by wind tunnel tests. A twin-engine configuration with a cranked-arrow main wing is selected as the baseline of the first generation vehicle. Its flight capability is predicted by point mass analysis on the basis of aerodynamic characterization and propulsion performance estimation. In addition, a prototype vehicle with an almost equivalent configuration and dimension is designed and fabricated for verification of the subsonic flight characteristics of the experiment vehicle. Its first flight test is carried out and good flight capability is demonstrated. Furthermore a revised aerodynamic configuration with an air-turbo ramjet gas-generator cycle (ATR-GG) engine is being designed for the second generation design with improvement in flight capability at higher Mach numbers. Development of the engine, airframe structure, and autonomous guidance/control system is underway. This prospective flight experiment vehicle will be applied to flight verification of innovative fundamental technologies for high-speed atmospheric flights such as turbo-ramjet propulsion with endothermic or biomass fuels, MEMS and morphing techniques for aerodynamic control, aero-servo-elastic technologies, etc.
Publisher en JAPAN SOC AERONAUT SPACE SCI
Date
    Issued2014
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type VoR
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/10258/00010365 , URI https://muroran-it.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/10424
Relation
  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.2322/tastj.12.Po_3_1
Journal
    • EISSN 1884-0485
      • en TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
      • Volume Number12 Issue Number29
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