Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense has established the Future Vertical Lift initiative to develop a family of next-generation vertical lift aircraft that will fly farther, faster, and more efficiently than the current fleet of rotorcraft. To accomplish these goals, advanced rotorcraft configurations beyond the single main rotor/tail rotor design must be considered. Two advanced configurations currently being flight tested in a technologydemonstrator program are a lift offset coaxial rotorcraft with a pusher propeller and a tiltrotor. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center Technology Development Directorate has developed generic, high-fidelity flight-dynamics models of these two configurations to provide the government with independent control-system design, handling-qualities analysis, and simulation researchcapabilities for these types of aircraft in support of the Future Vertical Lift initiative.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 14, 2020
Accession Number
AD1091413

Entities

People

  • Tom Berger

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Reliability
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Tilt Wing Aircraft
  • Tilt Wings
  • Vertical Takeoff Aircraft

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.