Facilities for aerodynamic testing at hypersonic speeds

Facilities for aerodynamic testing at hypersonic speeds

Jaarsma, F.
de Wolf, W.B.

National Aerospace Laboratory NLR

1972-12-01

An assessment i s made of the usefulness and potential of existing European Tiypersonic facilities, on the basis of the planned U.3, space shuttleproject and a hypothetical hypersonic transport aircraft. With respect to aerodynamic testing of space shuttle type of vehicle it is pointed out that a significant gap exists between M=10 and M=15. At low-hypersonic Mach numbers the facilities in Europe will generally meet the minimum requirements for testing hypersonic transport models. European capacibilities appear to be rather similar to those in the U.S. hypersonic wind tunnels, though the U.S. capacibilities will be increased considerably in the near future. It is further concluded that European facilities fall short in their performance of what is required, in the field of propulsion (including supersonic combustion tests) and also hardware testing.

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