Optimization for fighter aircraft vertical-plane maneuvering using poststall flight

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1017-1021

  Horie, Kazuhiro ^a   Conway, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EVADER AIRCRAFT; POSTSTALL FLIGHT; PURSUER AIRCRAFT;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0034315142     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2729     Document Type: Article

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