Optimal city-center takeoff operation of tiltrotor aircraft in one engine failure

Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-39

  Carlson, Eric B ^a   Zhao, Yiyuan J ^b  

^a BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Engines; Failures; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ONE ENGINE INOPERATIVE (OEI); REAL TIME INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; RIGID BODY MODELS; TILTROTOR AIRCRAFTS;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HELICOPTER ROTORS; HELIPORTS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SAFETY TESTING; TAKEOFF; TRAJECTORIES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 13944283370     PISSN: 08931321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2004)17:1(26)     Document Type: Article

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