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After making slight trajectory corrections to account for launch rail effects, higher than anticipated drag, and actual booster performance, the payload was inserted nominally above 5,200 ft/s (1,600 m/s) and 61,000 ft (19,000 m) altitude. The full complement of subsystems were again proven out in flight on this successful flight test.
Starting in 1958, following his graduation from both U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology and the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School (Class 58C), Knight served as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, California. He was a project test pilot for the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter and later, T-38 Talon and F-5 ...
The center long operated the oldest B-52 Stratofortress bomber, a B-52B (dubbed Balls 8 after its tail number, 008) that had been converted to a drop test aircraft. 008 dropped many supersonic test vehicles, from the X-15 to its last research program, the hypersonic X-43A, powered by a Pegasus rocket. Retired in 2004, the aircraft is on display ...
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57 General characteristics Crew: 2 Length: 30 ft 7 in (9.32 m) Wingspan: 29 ft 10 in (9.09 m) Height: 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) Wing area: 150 sq ft (14 m 2) Gross weight: 4,440 lb (2,014 kg) Fuel capacity: 119 US gal (99 imp gal; 450 L) normal; 165 US gal (137 imp gal; 620 L) max Powerplant: 1 × Continental YJ69-T-9 centrifugal flow compressor ...
Using its 0.30 cal light-gas gun and powder gun, the AVGR can launch projectiles to velocities ranging from 500 to 7,000 m/s (1,600 to 23,000 ft/s; 1,100 to 15,700 mph). By varying the gun's angle of elevation with respect to the target vacuum chamber, impact angles from 0° to 90° relative to the gravitational vector are possible.
In 1955 the program moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to complete the test program. Here a new set of six X-10 vehicles completed the testing of the N-6 inertial navigation system at supersonic speeds, reach 49,000 feet (15,000 m) altitude, a total flight distance of 627 mi (1,009 km) and a peak speed of Mach 2.05.
Astra (American spaceflight company)'s testing facility at former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California; Lockheed Martin's Santa Cruz Facility in Santa Cruz, California [2] Northrop Grumman's Capistrano Test Site near San Clemente, California [3] Mojave Air and Space Port's rocket testing facilities; National Technical Systems' NTS ...
12.98 (+0.8 m/s) Grant Holloway: University of Florida: June 8, 2019 NCAA Division I Championships: Austin, Texas [14] 12.96 (+1.3 m/s) PS: Cordell Tinch: Pittsburg State University: June 23, 2023 Trackwired Arkansas Grand Prix Fayetteville, Arkansas [15] 400 m hurdles: 47.02 Rai Benjamin: University of Southern California: June 8, 2018 NCAA ...