Potential Improvements in Thermal Management of Hypersonic Aircraft for Mixed Missions

Document Number: 670354

Date Published: February 1967

Author(s):
C. J. MacMiller - North Amer. Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles Div.

Abstract:
The potential advantages of hypersonic vehicles compatible with missions combining more than one cruise flight regime are developed. Gas dynamic heating is discussed as one of the most challenging areas in the development of their propulsion systems, and the role of thermal management on the design of hypersonic vehicles is emphasized. Mixed missions result in vehicles with higher structural efficiencsy and lower fuel equivalence ratios, and these benefits are presented in terms of their effect on range. Further, mixed missions are shown to complement current research and development of high-temperature materials.

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