[net.space] Shuttle Lift & Drag Specs

DForcine.es@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (03/13/84)

I'm wondering if anyone out there happens to know the lift and drag
specifications of the space shuttle.  I need the information for a lab
experiment in my fluid mechanics class.  Thanks in advance.

Debbie

kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) (03/15/84)

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If anyone out there >does< have acces to the shuttle's lift and drag specs,
I'd appreciate if they'd also post them to me; somebody I know is working
on a shuttle launch simulation program, and at the moment has to
make fairly simple assumptions about aerodynamic characteristics.
Most useful would be a citation for some source in the literature
giving detailed listings of these specs as a function of Mach number,
Reynold's number, angle of attack and sideslip, and variations with
changes in flight-control configurations. (Hey, if they're detailed
enough, maybe I can work them into MY filght simulator!)
Thanks!
-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll

rmiller@ccvaxa.UUCP (03/31/84)

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ccvaxa!rmiller    Mar 31 18:20:00 1984

some info was published by one of the pilots in SOARING a year or few
ago. i will try to find it, but can't promise anything right now.

SOARING is from the Soaring Society of America

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