Experience with Flight Test Trajectory Guidance. Meeting Paper AIAA-1981-2504, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Swann, M.R. and Duke, E.L. and Enevoldson, E.K. and Wolf, T.D. (1981) Experience with Flight Test Trajectory Guidance. Meeting Paper AIAA-1981-2504, Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

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Abstract

A system that provides the test pilot with flight test trajectory guidance is presently evolving at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility. In use, this system has resulted in discernible improvements in the ease and accuracy with which pilots have approached and maintained the desired flight test conditions or trajectories. This paper describes the use of the guidance system in several past flight programs at Dryden, including the F-111 TACT program, the F-15 airframe/propulsion system interaction program, the F-15 cone transition and boundary layer experiments, and the space shuttle tiles flight test program.

EPrint Type:	Other
Keywords:	F-15 aircraft, F-111 aircraft, Space Shuttle
Subjects:	Aircraft/Project: F-111 Aircraft/Project: Space Shuttle Orbiter Aircraft/Project: F-15
ID Code:	1575
Deposited On:	12 June 2007
Additional Information:	8 pages. AIAA/SETP/SFTE/SAE/ITEA/IEEE 1st Flight Testing Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 11-13, 1981.