Accession Number:

AD0469897

Title:

SOME AERODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF VARYING THE BODY LENGTH AND HEAD LENGTH OF A SPINNING PROJECTILE

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Dickinson, Elizabeth R.

Report Date:

1965-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

Experimental results are presented on the effect, at supersonic velocities, on the drag coefficient, overturning moment coefficient, normal force coefficient and center of pressure, of varying the head length and body length of spinning projectiles.

Descriptors:

• *PROJECTILES
• AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS
• AERODYNAMIC LOADING
• BASE FLOW
• CYLINDRICAL BODIES
• DRAG
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• EXTERIOR BALLISTICS
• FORCE(MECHANICS)
• FREE FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES
• MOMENTS
• OGIVES
• PRESSURE
• SPIN STABILIZED AMMUNITION
• SPINNING(MOTION)
• SUPERSONIC CHARACTERISTICS

Subject Categories:

• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE