Flight Control Systems
Flight Control Systems

Author: Roger Pratt

Publisher: IET

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780852967669

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Annotation Bridging the gap between academic research and real-world applications, this reference on modern flight control methods for fixed-wing aircraft deals with fundamentals of flight control systems design, then concentrates on applications based on the modern control methods used in the latest aircraft. The book is written for practicing engineers who are new to the aviation industry, postgraduate students in strategic or applied research, and advanced undergraduates. Some knowledge of classical control is assumed. Pratt is a member of IEEE and is UK Member for AIAA's Technical Committee on Guidance, Navigation and Control. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Commercial Supersonic Transport Program. Phase Ii-c. Interim Aircraft Performance Assessment Report. Automatic Flight Control System Performance Specification
Commercial Supersonic Transport Program. Phase Ii-c. Interim Aircraft Performance Assessment Report. Automatic Flight Control System Performance Specification

Author: BOEING CO RENTON WA.

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13:

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This specification describes the automatic flight control system (AFCS) and establishes its requirements and testing objectives. Dynamic and static accuracies, as well as a complete description of all the control modes, are included. System performance requirements established herein are design objectives to be applied to the prototype airplanes. Application of these requirements to production airplane design will be established after prototype flight testing. (Author).

U.S. Supersonic Commercial Aircraft
U.S. Supersonic Commercial Aircraft

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-08-25

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780309058780

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently developing advanced technologies to form the foundation for the next breakthrough in civil aviation: an economically viable, environmentally acceptable supersonic transport. NASA's High Speed Research Program works in conjunction with industry to identify and address critical technological challenges to initiating commercial development of a practical supersonic transport. The key technical areas investigated are engine emissions, fuel efficiency, service life, and weight; community noise; aircraft range and payload; and weight and service life of airframe structures. Areas of particular interest include the ability of technologies under development to meet program goals related to noise, emissions, service life, weight, range, and payload. This book examines aircraft design requirements, assesses the program's planning and progress, and recommends changes that will help the program achieve its overall objectives.

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.

Commercial Supersonic Technology
Commercial Supersonic Technology

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-02-16

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0309082773

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High-speed flight is a major technological challenge for both commercial and business aviation. As a first step in revitalizing efforts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to achieve the technology objective of high-speed air travel, NASA requested the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study that would identify approaches for achieving breakthroughs in research and technology for commercial supersonic aircraft. Commercial Supersonic Technology documents the results of that effort. This report describes technical areas where ongoing work should be continued and new focused research initiated to enable operational deployment of an environmentally acceptable, economically viable commercial aircraft capable of sustained supersonic flight, including flight over land, at speeds up to approximately Mach 2 in the next 25 years or less.

Fluid Dynamics Research on Supersonic Aircraft
Fluid Dynamics Research on Supersonic Aircraft

Author: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Research and Technology Organization

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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Contains the lecture notes prepared for a Special Course on Fluid Dynamics Research on Supersonic Aircraft organized by the RTO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT). The Course was held at the von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) Institute, Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium 25-29 May 1998. The following topics were covered: History & Economics of Supersonic Transports, Supersonic Aerodynamics, Sonic Boom Theory and Minimization, Multi-Point Design Challenges, Vortex Plume Interactions, Propulsion System Design. Presentations on the major world wide supersonic transport programs were also included. The material assembled in this publication was prepared under the combined sponsorship of the RTO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel, the Consultant and Exchange Program of RTO, and the von Kármán Institute (VKI) for Fluid Dynamics.

Analysis and Preliminary Design of an Advanced Technology Transport Flight Control System
Analysis and Preliminary Design of an Advanced Technology Transport Flight Control System

Author: Ronald Frazzini

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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The analysis and preliminary design of an advanced technology transport aircraft flight control system using avionics and flight control concepts appropriate to the 1980-1985 time period are discussed. Specifically, the techniques and requirements of the flight control system were established, a number of candidate configurations were defined, and an evaluation of these configurations was performed to establish a recommended approach. Candidate configurations based on redundant integration of various sensor types, computational methods, servo actuator arrangements and data-transfer techniques were defined to the functional module and piece-part level. Life-cycle costs, for the flight control configurations, as determined in an operational environment model for 200 aircraft over a 15-year service life, were the basis of the optimum configuration selection tradeoff. The recommended system concept is a quad digital computer configuration utilizing a small microprocessor for input/output control, a hexad skewed set of conventional sensors for body rate and body acceleration, and triple integrated actuators.