Calculated drag of an aerial refueling assembly through airplane performance analysis

AIAA Paper

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 133-150

  Vachon, Michael Jacob ^a   Ray, Ronald J ^a   Calianno, Carl ^b  

^a NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAIR ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL REFUELING ASSEMBLY; AIRPLANE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; AUTOTHROTTLE CONTROL; UNMANNED REFUELING OPERATIONS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RANKINE CYCLE; SATELLITES;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 2942735286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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