Emergency flight planning applied to total loss of thrust

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1205-1216

  Atkins, Ella M ^a,b,c   Portillo, Igor Alonso ^a,d,e   Strube, Matthew J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Mail Box 1513

^e Research Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING; ALGORITHMS; MAN POWERED AIRCRAFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; TRAJECTORIES;

ADAPTIVE FLIGHT PLANNER (AFP); EMERGENCY FLIGHT PLANNING; FLIGHT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE; THRUST FAILURE;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 33748067763     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.18816     Document Type: Article

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