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Project 5.6 ~ In-Flight participation of an F-1O1A - Capt M.H. Lewin
OBJECTIVE
The objective of Project 5.6 is to determine the responses of an
in-flight F-101A aircraft to the thermal, blast and gust effects of a
nuclear detonation.
INSTRUMENTATION
The aircraft was instrumented with radiometers, calorimeters and
pressure tranducers to measure the thermal and blast inputs and with
strain gages, thermocouples and various other instruments to measure
the aircraft responses to the inputs.
positioned to theoretically receive
For this shot, the aircraft was
distributed up
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load on the stabilator based on the positicning yield.
AIRCRAFT POSTTION IN SPACE
The aircraft was to fly at 12,000 feet absolute on an {inbound
heading of O5O°T at a TAS of 800 fps.
It wes planned that the aircraft
would be 7,000 feet sport of ground zero at T, with shock arrival
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occurring (ESBS) later with the aircraft over ground zero.
Actual
shot day pesition showed the aircraft to bR7,540 feet short of ground
zero at T, with shock arriving SE 1c with the aircraft
being 390 feet short of ground zero.
RESULTS
Darages
There was no apparent damage to the aircraft.
Instrumentation:
mentation,
There was no apparent damage to the instru-
Of the 50 oscillograph recorded psrameters, only three
positively did not produce data.
One radiozeter vas burned out prior
CS FIED/UvE
CANE KE
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