There are several practical problems in using current techniques with five degree of freedom equations to estimate the stability and control derivatives of oblique wing aircraft from flight data. A technique was developed to estimate these derivatives by separating the analysis of the longitudinal and lateral directional motion without neglecting cross coupling effects. Although previously applied to symmetrical aircraft, the technique was not expected to be adequate for oblique wing vehicles. The application of the technique to flight data from a remotely piloted oblique wing aircraft is described. The aircraft instrumentation and data processing were reviewed, with particular emphasis on the digital filtering of the data. A complete set of flight determined stability and control derivative estimates is presented and compared with predictions. The results demonstrated that the relatively simple approach developed was adequate to obtain high quality estimates of the aerodynamic derivatives of such aircraft.


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    Title :

    Aerodynamic Derivatives for an Oblique Wing Aircraft Estimated from Flight Data by Using a Maximum Likelihood Technique


    Contributors:
    R. E. Maine (author)

    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    74 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English