Download or read book An Overview of Flight Test Results for a Formation Flight Autopilot written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first flight test phase of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Autonomous Formation Flight project has successfully demonstrated precision autonomous station-keeping of an F/A-18 research airplane with a second F/A-18 airplane. Blended inertial navigation system (INS) and global positioning system (GPS) measurements have been communicated across an air-to-air telemetry link and used to compute relative-position estimates. A precision research formation autopilot onboard the trailing airplane controls lateral and vertical spacing while the leading airplane operates under production autopilot control. Four research autopilot gain sets have been designed and flight-tested, and each exceeds the project design requirement of steady-state tracking accuracy within 1 standard deviation of 10 ft.
Download or read book Flight Test Techniques Used to Evaluate Performance Benefits During Formation Flight written by Ronald J. Ray and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight Test Report Guide written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book F A 18 Performance Benefits Measured During the Autonomous Formation Flight Project written by M. Jake Vachon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Aircraft Flight Test Engineering written by Hubert C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Flight Testing written by James W. Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Flight Testing Introduction to Flight Testing Provides an introduction to the basic flight testing methods employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles Introduction to Flight Testing provides a concise introduction to the basic flight testing methods employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles for courses in aeronautical engineering. There is particular emphasis on the use of modern on-board instruments and inexpensive, off-the-shelf portable devices that make flight testing accessible to nearly any student. This text presents a clear articulation of standard methods for measuring aircraft performance characteristics. Topics covered include aircraft and instruments, digital data acquisition techniques, flight test planning, the standard atmosphere, uncertainty analysis, level flight performance, airspeed calibration, stall, climb and glide, take-off and landing, level turn, static and dynamic longitudinal stability, lateral-directional stability, and flight testing of unmanned aircraft systems. Unique to this book is a detailed discussion of digital data acquisition (DAQ) techniques, which are an integral part of modern flight test programs. This treatment includes discussion of the analog-to-digital conversion, sample rate, aliasing, and filtering. These critical details provide the flight test engineer with the insight needed to understand the capabilities and limitations of digital DAQ. Key features: Provides an introduction to the basic flight testing methods and instrumentation employed on general aviation aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Includes examples of flight testing on general aviation aircraft such as Cirrus, Diamond, and Cessna aircraft, along with unmanned aircraft vehicles. Suitable for courses on Aircraft Flight Test Engineering. Introduction to Flight Testing provides resources and guidance for practitioners in the rapidly-developing field of drone performance flight test and the general aviation flight test community.
Download or read book Understanding Performance Flight Testing Kitplanes and Production Aircraft written by Hubert C. Smith and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Covers lightplane performance flight testing methods, measures, and computer applications *Includes CD-ROM with sample spreadsheets containing equations to help readers perform their own flight tests *Describes GPS (Global Positioning System) test method for airspeed calibration and rapid-wind camera method for takeoff performance
Download or read book Aircraft Drag Reduction Through Extended Formation Flight written by Simeon Andrew Ning and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formation flight has the potential to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of long range flights, even with existing aircraft. This research explores a safer approach to formation flying of transport aircraft, which we term extended formation flight. Extended formations take advantage of the persistence of cruise wakes and extend the streamwise separation between the aircraft by at least five wingspans. Classical aerodynamic theory suggests that the total induced drag of the formation should not change as the streamwise separation is increased, but the large separation distances of extended formation flight violate the simple assumptions of these theorems. At large distances, considerations such as wake rollup, atmospheric effects on circulation decay, and vortex motion become important to consider. We first examine the wake rollup process in the context of extended formations and develop an appropriate physics-based model. Using this model, this dissertation addresses three aspects of formation flight: longitudinally extended formations, compressibility effects, and formations of heterogeneous aircraft. Uncertainty analysis is used to investigate the induced drag savings of extended formations in the presence of variation in atmospheric properties, limitations of positioning accuracy, and uncertainty in model parameters. Next, the methodology is integrated with an Euler solver to assess the impact of compressibility while flying in formation. Finally, we examine the important considerations for optimally arranging formations of non-identical aircraft.
Download or read book A Fuzzy Technique for Performing Lateral Axis Formation Flight Navigation Using Wingtip Vortices written by Curtis E. Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight Test Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight Test Guide Part 61 Revised Instrument Pilot written by United States. Flight Standards Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unmanned Aircraft Systems written by Ella Atkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the design, development, operation and mission profiles of unmanned aircraft systems, this single, comprehensive volume forms a complete, stand-alone reference on the topic. The volume integrates with the online Wiley Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, providing many new and updated articles for existing subscribers to that work.
Download or read book Engineering Flight Test Guide for Transport Category Airplanes written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Flight Test Engineering written by Donald T. Ward and published by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight test guide instrument pilot written by United States. Flight Standards Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerial Vehicles written by T. M. Lam and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 35 chapters written by experts in developing techniques for making aerial vehicles more intelligent, more reliable, more flexible in use, and safer in operation.It will also serve as an inspiration for further improvement of the design and application of aeral vehicles. The advanced techniques and research described here may also be applicable to other high-tech areas such as robotics, avionics, vetronics, and space.
Download or read book Flight test guide written by United States. Flight Standards Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
