95. Weight Engineering and the Guided Missile
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Paper
Abstract
Relative to the recent 50th anniversary of powered flight, the guided missile is in its teething infancy. The missile design engineer faces two new concepts. He is exploring a new medium-the realm of supersonics; he is designing a new flying machine -the pilot- less aircraft for complex fight and mission requirements. The Weight Engineer, whose entry into the field of aircraft occurred many years after the first powered flight, now stands on the ground floor of missile engineering in company with the design engineers and specialists. This necessitates the development of weight engineering in step with the rest of the missile field rather than many years after the first missile flight.
This paper may be considered to have a threefold purpose. It is endeavored to present to the Weight Engineer-
1. Some fundamental concepts of missile design, and design philosophies, in correlation with principles of missile weight engineering.
2. Basic foundations for the formulation of analytical approach to weight estimation methods. This approach is considered to be absolutely essential to missile weight engineering at the present state of the art.
3. A general picture of future requirements for missile weight engineering, engineers, and estimation methods.
