Background Information and User Guide for Mil-F-8785B (ASG), 'Military Specification-Flying Qualities of Piloted Airplanes'

Abstract

The document is published in support of Military Specification MIL-F-8785B, 'Flying Qualities of Piloted Airplanes.' It was compiled after an extensive literature review and many meetings and discussions with personnel from essentially all concerned civilian and governmental organizations. The primary purpose is to explain the concept and philosophy underlying MIL-F-8785B and to present some of the data and arguments upon which the requirements were based. A secondary purpose is to present what are believed to be the important governing variables in the field of flying qualities and to define their significance and relationship to each other. The significance of such mission- oriented factors as airplane class, flight phase, flight condition, loading and configuration is discussed, as is the treatment of failure states. The document should also, to a degree, serve as a summary of the state of the flying qualities art as determined from operational experience, flight test, experiment, analysis and theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0860856

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Chalk
  • Francis E. Pritchard
  • Robert J. Woodcock
  • T. M. Harris
  • T. P. Neal

Organizations

  • Calspan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • High Lift Devices
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Swept Wings
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.