Rotorcraft research at the NASA vertical motion simulator

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2390-2402

  Aponso, Bimal L ^a   Tran, Due T ^a   Schroeder, Jeffery A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMES RESEARCH CENTER; CONFIGURABLE; FLIGHT CONTROLS; FLIGHT-SAFETY; HANDLING QUALITIES; HIGH-FIDELITY; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; LARGE-AMPLITUDE MOTIONS; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; MOTION SYSTEM; ROTORCRAFT PROGRAMS; ROTORCRAFT RESEARCH; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; SIMULATION FIDELITY; VERTICAL MOTION SIMULATOR; VISUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

AVIATION; COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT); HELICOPTERS; MILITARY HELICOPTERS; NASA;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 50049103075     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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