An outsider's look at flight instrumentation
Abstract
Possible diagnostic instrumentation for use in missile flight testing is discussed, with an emphasis on the need for increased instrumentation efforts. It is argued that the technology exists to develop such instruments, and should already be applied during design development. Specific technologies are cited that would be useful in flight instrumentation: putting transducers inside the motor case, and using fiber optics, acoustic detectors, and active ultrasound echo techniques, and installing a compact transient frequency shift package to record short duration transient signals. Video cameras, detonation diagnostics, as well as special strain gages are also mentioned. Techniques are discussed for transmitting video data or other wideband data in real time by using a standard telemetry receiver with an added wide bandwidth detector.
- Publication:
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AIAA
- Pub Date:
- July 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981jpcs.conf.....L
- Keywords:
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- Flight Instruments;
- Flight Tests;
- In-Flight Monitoring;
- Missile Control;
- Missile Design;
- Data Acquisition;
- Fiber Optics;
- Imaging Techniques;
- Pulse Communication;
- Sound Transducers;
- Strain Gages;
- Telemetry;
- Ultrasonic Wave Transducers;
- Instrumentation and Photography