ARMY CANNON CAR GETS FIRST AIRDROP TEST.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - A new armored car equipped with a cannon has been dropped by parachute parachute, umbrellalike device designed to retard the descent of a falling body by creating drag as it passes through the air. The development of modern aircraft has led to many experiments in the aerodynamic problems of parachute design, with the result that the from a C-17 transport plane in a test of whether the vehicle can go into combat with paratroopers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. For the first time, the eight-wheel Army Stryker armored car, mounted with a 105 mm cannon and called a mobile gun system, was dropped from an Air Force cargo plane cargo plane n → avión m de carga cargo plane n → avion-cargo m cargo plane cargo n → Aug. 13 onto the south part of Rogers Dry Lake. ``There is a present need to have airdrop air·drop n. A delivery, as of supplies or troops, by parachute from aircraft. tr. & intr.v. air·dropped, air·drop·ping, air·drops To drop or be dropped from an aircraft. Noun 1. capability for the mobile gun system, and we performed the feasibility test An operation plan review criteria to determine whether or not a plan is within the capacity of the resources that can be made available. See also logistic implications test. to see if the impact of an airdrop is consistent with static impact testing the Army has already completed,'' said Alec Dyatt, 418th Flight Test Squadron C-17 Combined Test Force flight test engineer. Before the parachute drop at Edwards, the Army performed its own tests to develop a honeycomb honeycomb a mosaic of closely packed units with depressed centers giving a honeycomb appearance. honeycomb ringworm see favus. honeycomb stomach reticulum. cargo carrier to cushion the impact. The purpose of the airdrop was to verify that the extraction system - three small parachutes that pulled the vehicle out of the rear door - was adequate and that there was sufficient clearance in the C-17 for the extraction, as well as to demonstrate safety, said Dan Jones, 418th Flight Test Squadron Boeing mission systems engineer. ``We built up to this test by dropping a cargo container that contained steel plates with the same mass properties The Mass Properties of an object are its:
The armored car's cargo container is equipped with 10 parachutes - each 100 feet in diameter - that allow the container to hit the ground with the same force as if it had been dropped from 12 feet off the ground, Jones said. ``The next step after the feasibility test is to have the Stryker vehicle undergo full developmental testing, which will conclude when the Army performs three operational extractions,'' said Maj. Landon Henderson, 418th Flight Test Squadron C-17 test director and test pilot. Developmental testing will include dropping more than one Stryker on the same pass. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: An Army Stryker armored car with a 105 mm cannon is dropped by parachute from an Air Force C-17 cargo plane over Rogers Dry Lake in a test. |
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