An analysis is presented of more than 1,300 hours flight loads records obtained from light aircraft engaged in low altitude terrain-following operations. It is shown that continuous operation in the average low altitude environment reduces the estimated fatigue life by a factor of 15 to 1 when compared with the normal operating environment, and in the limiting condition imposed by pilot tolerance this factor is increased to 90 to 1. (Author)


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Low Altitude Flight Load Spectra for Light Aircraft


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    38 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Low altitude flight load spectra for light aircraft

    Sewell, R.T. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1967


    Low altitude flight load spectra for light aircraft

    Sewell, R.T. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1967


    Flight simulator test of altitude-coded aircraft light

    Robinson, Jr., J.E. / Cook, K.G. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1963


    Estimation of optimal flight altitude for an aircraft

    Singh, Aman jot / Dhawan, Suvriti | AIAA | 2015