Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Winebarger, R. M..
Data are presented on loads and motions of a NASA F-106B airplane flying inside thunderstorms. No significant differences in piloting techniques were observed among the three pilots involved. It is indicated that airliners in normal operations occasionally encounter turbulence almost as severe as those encountered in these thunderstorm flights.
An attempt has been made to determine the effects of nuclear EM pulses (NEMPs) on aircraft systems, using a highly instrumented NASA F-106B to document the simulated NEMP environment at the Kirtland Air Force Base's Vertically Polarized Dipole test facility. Several test positions were selected so that aircraft orientation relative to the test facility would be the same in flight as when on the stationary dielectric stand, in order to validate the dielectric stand's use in flight configuration simulations. Attention is given to the flight test portions of the documentation program.
Measuring low-density flow over two-dimensional blunt bodies in hypersonic arc tunnel
Viscous degradation of hypersonic lift-drag ratio in manned spacecraft, noting free stream Mach and Reynolds numbers