Personnel Airdrop Simulation

Simulation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 4-21

  Fox, Scott M ^a   Bailey, T Glenn ^b   Carlton, William B ^c  

^a Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

airborne operations; airdrop; Combat modeling; flight simulation; object oriented design; object oriented simulation; wake vortices

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRDROP SIMULATION; COMBAT MODELING;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 0034969885     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754970107600101     Document Type: Article

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