ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF MILITARY HELICOPTER FLYING QUALITIES

Abstract

The report is directed at analysis and review of the current military helicopter flying qualities specification, MIL-H-8501A, and of the relevant published literature. The analytical approach rests primarily on servo-analysis of closed-loop piloting tasks and secondarily on open-loop response considerations, and such analysis and considerations are used as the basis for correlating and 'explaining' the available data. This process delineates those flying qualities criteria (either in the specification or proposed in the literature) which are valid, and establishes bases for additional experiments in inadequately explored critical areas. The results are specifically applied to an itemized critique of MIL-H-8501A (excluding autoration, miscellaneous, instrument flight, and vibration characteristics).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0666827

Entities

People

  • I. L. Ashkenas
  • R. P. Walton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airplanes
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Control Sticks
  • Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight
  • Helicopters
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Tensile Strength
  • Vibration

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation