Minimum altitude-loss flight of a sailplane through a given vertical wind distribution is discussed. The problem is posed as an optimal control problem, and several numerical solutions are obtained for a sinusoidal wind distribution.
Minimum Altitude-Loss Soaring in a Specified Vertical Wind Distribution
1979-06-01
Conference paper
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English
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