Flight experiments have been conducted as part of a program to assess requirements for flight-path control for glide-slope tracking and for control of the flare and landing for STOL aircraft. The Augmentor Wing Research Aircraft was used to perform landing approaches on a 7.5 deg glide slope to landings on a 30 x 518 m STOL runway. The flight results identified flight-path overshoot and vertical velocity damping to be the dominant aircraft response characteristics that affect glide-slope tracking. The one prominent contribution to control of flare using pitch attitude was the short-term path response.
Flight evaluation of flight-path control required for the approach and landing of STOL aircraft
V/STOL Conference ; 1977 ; Palo Alto, CA
1977-01-01
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English
STOL aircraft flight and landing area considerations.
NTRS | 1973
|Automatic Landing Flight Control of Large Scale STOL Aircraft
Online Contents | 1994
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