A mock-up of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's experimental "glove" undergoes hot-loads tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
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A mock-up of the stainless-steel Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project’s experimental “glove” undergoes hot-loads tests at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA. The thermal ground test simulated heats and pressures the wing glove will experience at hypersonic speeds. Quartz heat lamps subjected this model of a Pegasus booster rocket’s right wing glove to the extreme heats it would experience at speeds approaching Mach 8.
The glove had a highly reflective surface, underneath which are hundreds of temperature and pressure sensors that will send hypersonic flight data to ground tracking facilities during the experimental flight.September 13, 1995NASA Photo› Pegasus Project Description