FLYING VEHICLE COMPARTMENT Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: aero-space engineering; determination of aerodynamic loads acting on flying vehicle compartments and equipment arranged in these compartments. SUBSTANCE: flying vehicle compartment includes envelope whose lateral surface has drain hole and equipment arranged in this compartment. Items of equipment are enclosed in separate envelopes which are also provided with drain holes. Effective area of drain holes in all envelopes is found from empirical dependence of this area on maximum drop of pressure in each subsequent envelope relative to previous one over flight trajectory. This dependence is rather universal and is determined by flying vehicle trajectory class. EFFECT: facilitated procedure of determination of loads dictated by compartment strength. 6 dwg