The NASA Dryden Flight Research Center conducted flight tests of a propulsion-controlled aircraft system on an F-15 airplane. This system was designed to explore the feasibility of providing safe emergency landing capability using only the engines to provide flight control in the event of a catastrophic loss of conventional flight controls. Control laws were designed to control the flightpath and bank angle using only commands to the throttles. Although the program was highly successful, this paper highlights some of the challenges associated with using engine thrust as a control effector. These challenges include slow engine response time, poorly modeled nonlinear engine dynamics, unmodeled inlet-airframe interactions, and difficulties with ground effect and gust rejection. Flight and simulation data illustrate these difficulties.


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    Title :

    Design Challenges Encountered in a Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft Flight Test Program


    Contributors:
    T. Maine (author) / J. Burken (author) / F. Burcham (author) / P. Schaefer (author)

    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    19 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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