AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LONGITUDINAL HANDLING QUALITIES OF A VARIABLE STABILITY FLIGHT SIMULATOR.

Abstract

An investigation of the longitudinal handling qualities of the variable stability flight simulator, converted from a C-11B Instrument Flight Trainer, found the qualities to be an unrealistic representation of aircraft motion. Nonlinearities found in the dc servo drive circuits were caused by the dc servo drive motor's starting voltage, striction, misalinement of the motor and reduction gear axles, potentiometer resolution, and gearing backlash. The equations of motion for the T-33 aircraft were simulated with the analog portion of a hybrid computer. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0703225

Entities

People

  • Leo Joseph Willetts Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight
  • Flight Simulators
  • Gears
  • Hybrid Computers
  • Instrument Flight
  • Potentiometers
  • Reduction Gears
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Robotics and Automation.