Accession Number:

AD0010029

Title:

LOKI WIND RESPONSE ANALYSIS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NORTH AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS INC ALTADENA CA

Personal Author(s):

• BAKER, DONALD L.
• PHILLIPS, WARREN L.

Report Date:

1953-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

38.0

Abstract:

An analysis is presented of the effect of an arbiyrary wind distribution on the trajectory of a Loki missile to rocket burnout. THe wind is treated as a perturbation on the trajectory, and the effect of thrust malalignment is neglected. Sideways momentum and angular momentum imparted by a unit wind impulse are calculated and used for the step-by-step calculation of the flight path deviation caused by the impulse. Results for use in the design of a computer to correct for wind are presented in tems of parameters adaptable for correcting for varying winds.

Descriptors:

• *FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS
• DISTRIBUTION
• WIND
• BURNOUT
• PULSES
• PERTURBATIONS
• TRAJECTORIES
• THRUST
• MISALIGNMENT
• ROCKETS
• ANGULAR MOMENTUM
• COMPUTATIONS
• FLIGHT PATHS

Subject Categories:

• Guided Missiles

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE