DC-X Hydraulic Flight Control System
951994
09/01/1995
- Event
- Content
- The first reusable rocket to land on earth has a normal hydraulic system consisting of the usual components. However, what happened when four variable displacement hydraulic pumps interact with each other was not normal; nor was it normal to experience an explosion at the beginning of Flight No. 5 that damaged the hydraulic system, but the vehicle continued to fly properly for a 78 second aborted mission.
- Pages
- 7
- Citation
- Strode, G., "DC-X Hydraulic Flight Control System," SAE Technical Paper 951994, 1995, https://doi.org/10.4271/951994.