The initial objective of Project Whirlwind was to simulate the flight characteristics of an aircraft with the aim of obtaining pilot reaction to a proposed aircraft based on wind tunnel data without first going to the expense of building a prototype. The simulator could also be used to evaluate the desirability of proposed changes in an existing aircraft. A computer would have stored in it a program for the solution of the equations of motion of an aircraft, and the function tables representing the characteristics of a particular aircraft based on wind tunnel data. Inputs to the computer would be the pilot's control motions; outputs would be the appropriate instrument readings and quantities representing the forces on the pilot and on the controls. This is quite fully described in Summary Report No. 1 which is Vol. 3 of this series. Report R-64-1, which is Appendix A of Summary Report No. 1, presents a form of these equations as worked out by the staff of the Aeronautical Engineering Department at M.I.T. in co-operation with Project Whirlwind.


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    Title :

    Project Whirlwind. Volume 14. Aircraft Simulation


    Publication date :

    1947


    Size :

    144 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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