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Wednesday, Normbr 13. 1957
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Triggering of 'Fastest Gun Alive To Help
Study Of Satellite Reentering Atmosphere
Hoffett Naval Air Station,
Calif. W The "fastest gun
alive" -ill be triggered here
fbon tohelp the U.S. beat the
Russians to the draw for an in
Wrcontinental ballistics missile.
Ames Aeronautical laboratory
tintists will use a new 100-foot
1op, helium-powered gun to
study th problem of satellite
nd ICBM reentry Into the
strth'j atmosphere.
President Eisenhower said last
eejj that the U.S. had success
fully brought one ICBM back to
farth, but the reentry heating
problem must be checked out
for every new missile design, the
scientist laid.
"The reheating problem is not
olved for every possible ballis
tics missile and for every one
on which we are now at work,"
they explained.
16.000 Miles an Hour
It will shoot a pint-sized mis
lile, roughly the size of a .45
caliber slug, at a speed of 16,000
miles an hour a speed ap
proaching that of a nuclear
warhead missile diving through
the atmosphere.
By studying this tiny ball
through the photographs taken
along its trajectory of several
hundred feet, scientists say they
will be able to learn about some
of the conditions that could in
cinerate a manned rocket ship
or a bomb-carrying missile.
Temperatures on the surface
of the bullet range between
8,000 and 10,000 degrees.
The gun, being built by the
nival gun plant at Pocatello,
Ida., will be installed by the Na
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at Ames laboratory
some time this fall to augment
an arsenal of high speed guns
that can fire smaller projectiles
up to 10,000 miles per hour.
Yh Principle
The fuel that propels the'bul
let is helium compressed to high
temperatures by explosion of
conventional gunpowder. The
eompressed helium drives a pis
ton down the 'barrel" of the
Kun, Imparting motion to the
tiny missile.
Dr. Alfred J. Eggers, chief of
one of Ames wind tunnel
branches, says the gun and its
bullets can "give us a lot of val
uable information about reentry
heating problems right now a
key problem in ICBM design
An
missile must be designed to re
enter the earth's atmosphere
without burning to a cinder. To
shoot an ICBM to a Target 5,000
miles away, a missileman would
have to sky it to an altitude of
about 500 miles, well out of the
atmosphere, he said.
In the Ames test lab, the bul
let will leave a luminescent trail
of light as it speeds along at
16.000 miles an hour.
Eggers says it is possible to
reduce the amount of heat on
the sizzling skin of the missile
from the amount of luminescence
given off.
The amount of light is deter
mined from photographs that
"stop" the bullet with a pic
ture, taken at one ten-millionth
of a second.
"This tiny missile heats up
the way a rocket ship or an
ICBM will," Eggers says.
Visual studies of the ball
itself, which is captured in a
closet filled with a soft sub
stance such as a cotton, can re
veal scars and pock-marks caus
ed by the heat.
Design Heady
Eggers has already drawn a
designs for a recapturable satel
lite. It is a stubby-nosed missile
with swept-back fins projecting
from the sides to act as "drags"
or built-in brakes to slow it
down.
"In such a satellite, the pilot
and crew would probably spiral
down through the atmosphere,
gradually slowing before land
ing," he said.
"The firings are also used to
determine the amount of drag
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Cleveland Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff:
"Our strategy is built on the policy that we will be prepared
to use atomic weapons in any war."
Washington Former President Truman, on President Eisen
hower's missiles speech of last week:
"A right good speech. Now I want to see some action."
Pittsburgh Navy Capt. Irwin S. Moore, predicting the next
war will cost the United States about $4 trillion:
"There has been a factor of about 10 in the cost of wars. The
War Between the States cost about 53,900,000,000. World War I
cost about $36,900,000,000. Woarld War II cost about 383 billion.
New Orleans Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D.-La.) on General
Motors corporation's offer lo repay $9.7 million which Hebert
said they had overcharged the goverment for jet fighter planes:
"The American people can draw their own conclusions ... In
the history of this committee, it is the first time I have ever heard
of a corporation making such an offer in cold cash."
Washington Yonkers, N.Y., Teamsters Union official Edward
Doyle, asked by Sen. John L. McClellan if he were "apprehensive
of personal violence":
"Well, you've gotta die sometime, senator. You can't live for
ever." Boca Raton, Fla. John S. Knight, president of the Knight
newspaper chain, praising the nation's press for courageous ex
poses of racketeering in government and labor:
"At no lime in the history of journalism have professional
standards been so high ... Never before have ... editors worked
so constructively for community betterment."
on the sphere," Eggers said.
"This is important to the de
sign of a recoverable vehicle be
cause the drag plays an integral
part in slowing down the pro
jectile or high speed rocket
plane."
"If one knows the amount of
drag that will be encountered,
then he can determine the best
trajectory to chart for reenter
ing from space."
The heat studies conducted
here also give engineers a good
indication of what kind of metal
to use to withstand the friction
caused by atmospheric heating.
One of the best so far, Eggers
says, is inconel, which can with
stand terrific heating.
Tests are also being run here
on the design of the X15, a super
rocket plane now being built by
North American in Los Angeles
to probe the heat "barrier" at
speeds about 4,000 miles per
hour.
MORE POWDER
Chicago (IP) Powdered
tomato juice may be made with
a continuous vacuum drying
process developed by the De
partment of Agriculture.
Miami Beach Dr. Mason Trupp, suggesting that many of
man's headaches and brain ailments are caused by his lack of a
waggable tail (and can be cured by a tail nerve operation):
"Even though evolution has deprived man of his tail, he has
Intercontinental ballistics I not lost the desire and compulsion for wiggling it."
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