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Abstract: Aerodynamic heat-transfer measurements were at six stations on the 40-inch-long 10° total-angle conical nose of a rocket-propelled model which was flight tested at Mach numbers up to 5.9. The range of local Reynolds number was from 6.6 x 106 to 55.2 x 106. Laminar, transitional, and turbulent heat-transfer coefficients were measured, and, in general, the laminar and turbulent measurements were in good agreement with theory for cones. Experimental transition Reynolds numbers varied from less than 8.5 x 106 to 19.4 x 106. At a relatively constant ratio of wall temperature to local static temperature near 1.2, the transition Reynolds number increased from 9.2 x 106 to 19.4 x 106 as Mach number increased from 1.57 to 3.38. At Mach numbers near 3.7, the transition Reynolds number decreased as the skin temperature increased toward adiabatic wall temperatures.