Piloting strategies for controlling a transport aircraft after vertical-tail loss

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 216-225

  Bramesfeld, Götz ^a,b,c   Maughmer, Mark D ^a,b,c   Willits, Steven M ^a,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Applied Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFRAMES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MANEUVERABILITY;

IN-FLIGHT DAMAGE; PILOTING STRATEGIES; VERTICAL-TAIL LOSS;

TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33644627227     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.13357     Document Type: Article

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