Flight Stability and Automatic Control
Flight Stability and Automatic Control

Author: Robert C. Nelson

Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 9780071158381

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The second edition of Flight Stability and Automatic Control presents an organized introduction to the useful and relevant topics necessary for a flight stability and controls course. Not only is this text presented at the appropriate mathematical level, it also features standard terminology and nomenclature, along with expanded coverage of classical control theory, autopilot designs, and modern control theory. Through the use of extensive examples, problems, and historical notes, author Robert Nelson develops a concise and vital text for aircraft flight stability and control or flight dynamics courses.

Analysis and Specification of Slant Wind Shear
Analysis and Specification of Slant Wind Shear

Author: H. Albert Brown

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Wind data have been analyzed to produce frequencies of occurrence of slant wind shear with respect to surface wind speed, time of day, vertical temperature gradient and wind shear direction differences. Slant wind shear (SWS) is a measurement that more closely approximates the shear encountered by an aircraft on takeoff or landing. It is computed as the wind shear between a higher level wind (in this study, 60 m) and the surface separated by a horizontal distance equivalent to that which an aircraft would traverse in descending or ascending that height. Additional study was also completed on the specification of slant wind shear along the runway through the use of an offset towersurface site system.

Wind Models for Flight Simulator Certification of Landing and Approach Guidance and Control Systems
Wind Models for Flight Simulator Certification of Landing and Approach Guidance and Control Systems

Author: Neal M. Barr

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13:

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Analytic and probabilistic descriptions of low-altitude mean wind and turbulence have been investigated and a description selected. The effects of wind and turbulence on aerodynamics and aircraft motion have been analyzed. A model of wind and turbulence, suitable for the certification of landing and approach guidance and control systems by flight simulations, has been developed, and consideration has been given to implementation.