Recent trends in air-air combat technologies are dictating that pilots must be able to expand their flight envelopes in order to improve survivability in a multi-threat, all-aspect-weapons environment. The research community has borrowed the term 'supermaneuverability', from Dr. W.B. Herbst of M.B.B., to describe various aspects of flight envelope expansion, such as high angle-of-attack maneuvering, decoupled force maneuvering, very high transition rates and in-flight thrust vectoring/reversing. A study performed for the Air Force determined a utility for supermaneuverability and some of the technological deficiencies associated with the maneuvers, particularly in the high angle-of-attack regime. One cost of this added performance is the corresponding increase in pilot workload. Future needs of the designer require early evaluation of the flying qualities of supermaneuverable aircraft.
Supermaneuverability and flying qualities issues
Supermanoevrierfaehigkeit und Flugqualitaet
1986
3 Seiten
Conference paper
English
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