Investigation of Lift, Drag, and Aerodynamic Pitching Moment During In- Flight Recovery of a Remotely Piloted Vehicle

Abstract

A potential approach for recovery of remotely piloted vehicles (RPV) is the in-flight docking of the RPV with a mothership. Some design concepts are presented for in-flight recovery systems. A steady aerodynamic analysis was performed on a hypothetical RPV as it approached the mothership for docking. The correct trend in the variation of lift and static pitch moment of the RPV was predicted using a horseshoe vortex model to represent the mothership.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1973
Accession Number
ADA004324

Entities

People

  • Jon L. Gross

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Birds
  • Bomb Bays
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineering
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Paths
  • Free Stream
  • Level Flight
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Steady State
  • Trailing Vortices

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Software Engineering