Hi everyone,
I think that I am posting this message in the correct forum.
Here is my question, please.
Consider a rocket with a cluster of nozzles. I have heard about canting the nozzles so as to induce a spin. Now I will break up my question into two parts:
1) Does canting the nozzles indeed induce spin into the rocket's flight? I guess that seems intuitively obvious, but I wouldn't mind getting confirmation.
2) Here is my main question. What does it mean to cant the nozzles? You are not splaying them out -- am I right -- so that the aft end of the nozzle is farther away from the longitudinal axis than is the forward end of the nozzle? The caning takes place so that the forward end and the aft ends both continue to be equidistant from the longitudinal axis.
Actually, could someone produce a drawing of what canted nozzles would look like.
Thank you for your assistance.
Stanley
I think that I am posting this message in the correct forum.
Here is my question, please.
Consider a rocket with a cluster of nozzles. I have heard about canting the nozzles so as to induce a spin. Now I will break up my question into two parts:
1) Does canting the nozzles indeed induce spin into the rocket's flight? I guess that seems intuitively obvious, but I wouldn't mind getting confirmation.
2) Here is my main question. What does it mean to cant the nozzles? You are not splaying them out -- am I right -- so that the aft end of the nozzle is farther away from the longitudinal axis than is the forward end of the nozzle? The caning takes place so that the forward end and the aft ends both continue to be equidistant from the longitudinal axis.
Actually, could someone produce a drawing of what canted nozzles would look like.
Thank you for your assistance.
Stanley