ADS Image Page The following organizations provided these images SSCOM = U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command T*AFSM = Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling NASA JSC = NASA, Johnson Space Center PERSONNEL AIRDROP Mass assault training exercise using T-10 parachutes (SSCOM 191k) CARGO AIRDROP 60,000 Pound airdrop test consisting of twelve 100 foot diameter G-11 Canopies (SSCOM 318k) A Container Delivery System (SSCOM 128k) Experimental 70 foot diameter high speed cargo parachute (SSCOM 114k) GLIDING WINGS NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle B52 release (NASA JSC 281k) NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle inflight (NASA JSC 924k) NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle ground touch down (NASA JSC 408k) NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle after landing (NASA JSC 533k) Test flight of a 7350 sq.ft. parafoil, carrying 18000 lb., in support of NASA's X-38 crew return vehicle (NASA JSC 36k) Conceptual drawing of NASA's X-38 Crew Return Vehicle landing with the aid of parafoil (NASA JSC 31k) Typical instrumented pallet used for NASA's phase II testing of the X-38 parafoil system (NASA JSC 62k) Test flight of a 3,600 sq.ft. Guided Parafoil Air Delivery System (GPADS) Medium (Payload wieght approx. 15,000 pounds) (SSCOM 142k) Demonstration of a guided parachute in the light payload range (approx. 1500 pounds) (SSCOM 72k) Experimental Semi Rigid Wing Test Flight (500 pound payload) (SSCOM 219k) Experimental Ram Air canopy tested in an NASA AMES Wind Tunnel (SSCOM 250k) Experimental Ram Air canopy tested in an AMES Wind Tunnel (SSCOM 188k) NUMERICAL MODELING The following images are numerically predicted opening process of a half-scale C-9 canopy. Model couples the fluid and structural dynamics over the canopy surface in time. Shown are pressure distribution (left) and velocity vectors (right) for six snapshots in time. Half Scale C-9 Opening at 0.4 Seconds (SSCOM 60k) Half Scale C-9 Opening at 0.8 Seconds (SSCOM 79k) Half Scale C-9 Opening at 1.2 Seconds (SSCOM 94k) Half Scale C-9 Opening at 1.6 Seconds (SSCOM 97k) Half Scale C-9 Opening at 2.0 Seconds (SSCOM 106k) Half Scale C-9 Opening at 2.4 Seconds (SSCOM 107k) Stream lines and pressure distribution on and around a GPADS medium parafoil (T*AFSM 153k) GPADS Medium flight test (upper right), Cray T3D Super Computer (upper left), numerically predicted pressure distribution over parafoil (T*AFSM 174k)