A Monte Carlo model designed for fixed-wing aircraft takeoff performance uncertainty quantification is benchmarked. The uses of an efficient simulator this type range from rapid design variable and constraint sensitivity studies large-scale conceptual level analyses to operational planning real-time anomaly detection. accuracy the assessed against high-resolution flight-test data obtained throu...

Beginning in the mid-1980s, the phenomenon of capital flight from developing countries received considerable attention in the economics literature. Capital flight destroys the domestic macroeconomic environment and decreases transparency and accountability. It restricts financial resources when a country is looking for economic growth and development. The purpose of this article is to measure t...

The flight profile of typical small unmanned air systems (UAS) has expanded in the last decade beyond those encountered by traditional fixed-wing transport and rotary-wing aircraft. These new flight conditions may involve unusual flight mechanics as with flapping wing flight or complex aerodynamics when performing difficult maneuvers as part of routine operations. Such scenarios typically invol...

Test and evaluation of flight vehicles play a significant role towards the successful validation of various design criteria of the flight vehicles. Analytical studies, design simulation, simulated performance validation with respect to various critical design parameters provide the basic level of design qualification. However, for the final validation of the flight vehicle performance, it requi...

Commercial-off-the-shelf flight simulators are now reconfigurable through user interface software and have a significant increase in the number of parameterised aerodynamic co-efficients available to model the fidelity of flight performance. This leads to more stringent requirements concerning the management and interpretation of flight performance data which in turn means that certification of...

Numerous simulation studies have recently revealed the potential benefits of a neural network-based approach to direct adaptive control in the design of flight control systems. Foremost among the potential benefits is greatly reduced dependence on high-fidelity modeling of system dynamics. However, the methodology has only recently been proven practical by demonstration in an actual flight syst...