[BProckets] Cluster ejection

Dan Durachko DanDurachko at PSU.edu
Mon Feb 28 12:50:30 PST 2005


> >I am currently finishing up a 1/3 scale Harpoon AGM-84, which will fly on
a
> >cluster of 3 G-75's I was just wondering if I should just set up one of
the
> >motors with an ejection charge or all three?
> 
> I've wondered about this too.  I guess it kind of boils down to whether
you
> feel you can reliably get ignition of all 3 engines in the cluster.  How
bad
> might 3 synchronized (or unsynchronized) ejection charges be anyway???

I would put ejection charges in at least two of the motors. With each 
additional ejection charge you get more reliability, and the likelihood of 
all of them going off at the same time and overpressurizing the airframe 
is very low.

-Dave McCue

Would two charges sufficient for positive ejection most likely cause damage?




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