Analytical and Experimental Verification of a Flight Article for a Mach-8 Boundary-Layer Experiment

Figure 2. Pegasus ®EC89 309-3space booster mounted under the wing of the B-52 aircraft.Aerothermal Loads AnalysisA vehicle trajectory, similar to those previously described, e.g. Noffz, et al. 2 and Noffz, et al., 3 was used asinput to an aero/thermal analysis to determine aerodynamic heating loads applied to the glove during the flight. Anengineering aerodynamic heating code was used to calculate heat-transfer coefficients, heating rates, skin friction,and surface-static pressures at discrete locations during the transient-heating profile. The program permitted the