Thomas W. Bastian

TL;DR: An in-flight jettisonable protective cover device for protecting fragile, accurate, radomes or signal-responsive components for the major portion of a flight which is capable of being jettused in one piece at supersonic speeds from a guided missile, other air vehicles, or space vehicles is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the roll information is removed by a gear and slotted sleeve system, and the resulting pitch and yaw output is used to drive the thrust vector control jet tabs.

TL;DR: In this article, a rocket thrust vector control system including jet tabs and aerodynamic control surfaces is described, which removes roll information present in commands to the aerodynamic surfaces and provides only pitch and yaw information to the jet tabs for the thrust vector controller.

TL;DR: A multi-burn restartable solid rocket fuel having plural layers, each independently ignitable, including a central core, and at least one outer cylindrical layer separated from the central core by a non-ignitable layer is defined in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, a gimbal drive motors are co-axially mounted with the outer housing of one motor forming the drive pulley for the other drive assembly and the motors are disposed on adjacent parallel axes.