General condition is derived which must be satisfied by aircraft or space vehicle to reach predetermined point in minimum time; thrust, lift and drag can depend, in arbitrary manner, on instantaneous position and velocity coordinates (or Mach number) and angle of attack between directions of thrust and velocity; to make solution applicable to space vehicles and aircraft, cases of spherical and flat Earth are treated separately.


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    Title :

    Minimum time flight paths


    Additional title:

    ARS -- J


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    ARS Journal ; 30 , n 4


    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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