Climbing program analyzed with respect to minimum time, minimum fuel consumption, and minimum horizontal distance trajectories by means of indirect methods of calculus of variations; numerical examples for minimum time problem; effect of wing loading on solutions investigated.


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    Title :

    Approximate solutions to optimum flight trajectories for turbojet-powered aircraft


    Additional title:

    NASA -- Tech Note


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1959


    Size :

    33 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




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