Annotated Bibliography and Extended Reference List. Developed partially under NASA/US Navy support and the NASA/USRA ADP, by Jacob Kay. October 15, 1991, with subsequent revisions.
Defining control power requirements for advanced aircraft has become a difficult job. Recently, control power requirements have emerged to produce a first order effect on the aircraft concept. Previously, stability was a key requirement. However, flight control systems can now augment inherent stability, relaxing previous requirements. Instead, the defining issue for concept viability is the capability of the vehicle control effecters to provide the forces and moments required by the control system. Modern concepts employ multiple means of producing these forces and moments. The subject has attracted considerable attention, and this appendix provides a summary of related papers and reports. It follows a tradition, apparently started by Seckel in the aerospace vehicle control world, of providing bibliography lists and sample aircraft characteristics.
The following classification has been used to try to separate papers according to specialized topics. The list is tutorial in that classical textbooks have been included to introduce the aircraft design engineer to the area.
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