Evaluation of Effects of High-altitude Turbulence Encounters on the XB-70 Airplane

Evaluation of Effects of High-altitude Turbulence Encounters on the XB-70 Airplane
Author: Ronald J. Wilson
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Total Pages: 92
Release: 1971
Genre: Atmospheric turbulence
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A turbulence response investigation was conducted with the XB-70 airplane. No special turbulence penetration techniques, speeds, or other restrictions were specified for the investigation, nor were any flights made solely to obtain turbulence data. During 79 flights, turbulence was encountered, and recorded on a VGH recorder, 6.2 percent of the total flight distance at supersonic speeds above an altitude of 12,192 meters (40,000 feet). Geographical locations are given for selected turbulence encounters. For 22 flights the airplane was instrumented to measure true gust velocities and the structural acceleration response to turbulence. The turbulence intensities measured were very low in comparison with those measured at high altitudes in other investigations. Acceleration response spectra, frequency response transfer functions, and coherence functions were computed from three turbulence encounters at Mach numbers of 0.88, 1. 59, and 2.35. Results are compared with calculated studies. Frequencies from the vertical and lateral structural modes, dominant in the airplane acceleration responses, were compared with the natural frequencies of the human body in the vertical and lateral directions.

NASA Technical Memorandum

NASA Technical Memorandum
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Total Pages: 552
Release: 1991
Genre: Aeronautics
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NASA Tech Briefs

NASA Tech Briefs
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Total Pages: 1282
Release: 1989
Genre: Technology
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NASA Reference Publication

NASA Reference Publication
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Total Pages: 1092
Release: 1977
Genre: Astronautics
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NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Flight environment, operations, flight testing, and research

NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Flight environment, operations, flight testing, and research
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Total Pages: 1064
Release: 2010
Genre: Aeronautics
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Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.

NASA Technical Note

NASA Technical Note
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Total Pages: 686
Release: 1973
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