Meeting on Ground Wind Load Problems in Relation to Launch Vehicles

An unclassified technical meeting on ground wind load problems in relation to launch vehicles was held at the Langley Research Center on June 7 and 8, 1966. The meeting covered several sessions having the following topics: Specific Vehicle Results; Definition of Atmospheric Inputs; Experimental and Analytical Simulation Techniques; Basic Studies of Cylindrical Bodies; and Where Do We Go From Here? - The Designer's Viewpoint. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum for direct exchange of information and ideas between government, industry, and university personnel who are actively engaged in this area of work. In addition to focusing attention on current research and development information, the meeting also attempted to offer useful guidance on existing programs and on planning future efforts. The size of the meeting was kept small in order to encourage informal across-the-conference-table discussions among the attendees. In order to promote timely distribution of the papers presented at the meeting, this document has been printed using copy provided by the authors without the customary NASA editing.