Formation flight investigation for highly efficient future civil transport aircraft

A Crew-Centered Flight Deck Design Philosophy for High-Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) Aircraft

Flight Control Law Design for a Civil Aircraft usingRobust Dynamic

A Robust Dynamic Inversion (RDI) ight control law is designed for a large civil aircraft. Classical Dynamic Inversion (CDI) consists of a nonlinear part that linearizes the nominal system dynamics, and a linear part, basically PID control, that imposes the desired closed-loop dynamics. However, CDI controllers have very poor robustness properties since they rely on exact availability of the sys...

Validation of a numerical simulation tool for aircraft formation flight

This paper covers a numerical simulation of a NASA test flight utilizing a formation of two F18A Hornet aircraft. The numerical simulation was made using an adapted version of the vortex lattice method TORNADO, allowing for several aircraft to be simulated in a trimmed condition. The numerical results showed good agreement with the flight test data. Some discrepancies due to the numerical model...

Special forms of flight. III: Supersonic transport aircraft.

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Flight Loads Analysis of a Maneuvering Transport Aircraft