Citation

Sadovnychiy S, Ryzhenko A, Betin A. Aeronaut. J. 2005; 109(1091): 45-50.

Affiliation

Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Royal Aeronautical Society, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

This article deals with a damage simulation of flight control systems during a flight. As a subject of flight tests the model of a classic aerodynamic aircraft scheme is considered. This aircraft has highly swept wings a moderate wing elongation and all-moving horizontal tail surfaces. The diagrams of flight parameters from flight tests of the freely flying models with loss of a control surface in flight are given. The investigation results for the failures leading to a sharp drop in the stiffness of the control units in the pitch channel are given. The damage investigation in horizontal flight and in complex manoeuvres is given.

Language: en