Armor-piercing fin-stabilized projectiles stand out by their exceptionally high slenderness
ratios and ground-level flight at super-and hypersonic speeds. As space constraints limit the …

High-speed vehicle aerodynamics, flight dynamics, and wake signatures can be profoundly
influenced by propulsive effects. Free-flight model techniques in high speed ground-test …

Free-flight testing is an increasingly popular technique in which relatively simple models
move unconstrained in a wind tunnel test section without interference effects from a …

Controlling hypersonic vehicles is especially challenging due to the complex interactions
between vehicle subsystems, the flow field and the flight control logic. Full-scale flight testing …

Free-flight testing in hypersonic wind tunnels has shown good capabilities for analyzing the
flight of debris objects and scenarios for their separation. The free-flight methodology …