Flight-simulator study of airplane encounters with perturbed trailing vortices

AIAA Paper

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 6731-6742

  Loucel, R E ^a,b   Crouch, J D ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE ENCOUNTERS; AUTOPILOT; BREAKUP PROCESS; VORTEX RINGS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; NAVIGATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VORTEX FLOW;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 2942748612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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