Rapid hover-to-forward-flight transitions for a thrust-vectored aircraft

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-100

  Van Nieuwstadt, Michiel J ^a,b   Murray, Richard M ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMATIC PILOTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; THRUST VECTORED AIRCRAFTS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031647312     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4202     Document Type: Article

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