The patent concerns a system for providing a rocket powered vehicle with complete thrust vectoring capabilities including a convergent-divergent nozzle attached to a motor casing by a flexible joint member. The flexible joint member includes a laminar structure comprising a series of alternate annular elastomeric and metallic shim members. The elastomeric shim members provide omnidirectional flexible capabilities for the nozzle. Integrally connected to the nozzle is a hydraulically controlled pintle member movable along the axis of the nozzle which varies the effective cross-sectional area of the throat of the nozzle and thereby varies the magnitude of the resulting thrust.


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    Title :

    Thrust Vectoring Control System for Rocket Nozzles


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1971


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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