In-flight demonstration of a real-time flush airdata sensing system

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 970-977

  Whitmore, Stephen A ^a,b,c   Davis, Roy J ^a,d   Fife, John Michael ^a,b,e  

^a NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b M S D 2033

^c AIAA ^*

^d BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TELEMETERING;

AIRDATA PARAMETERS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; FLIGHT TESTS; FLUSH TIME AIRDATA SENSING SYSTEM; INERTIAL TRAJECTORY MEASUREMENTS; MACH NUMBERS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; PRESSURE ORIFICES;

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0030247549     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.47043     Document Type: Article

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