Encounters with aircraft vortex wakes: The impact on helicopter handling qualities

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 839-849

  Turner, Graham P ^a   Padfield, Gareth D ^b   Harris, Michael ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; TAKEOFF; VELOCITY CONTROL; WAKES;

AIRCRAFT VORTEX WAKES; HELICOPTER HANDLING QUALITY; TRANSIENT MOTION; VORTEX VELOCITY PROFILE;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0036757611     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3004     Document Type: Article

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