Lateral/Directional and Roll Performance Issues

from the Virginia Tech Aircraft Design Information Sources pages

Pinsker, W., "Directional Stability in Flight with Bank Angle Constraint as a Condition Defining a Minimum Acceptable Value for n-v," RAE Report TR 67127.

Doetsch, K. Jr., "Parameters Affecting Lateral-Directional Handling Qualities at Low Speed," Handling Qualities Criteria, AGARD CP-106, Oct. 1971.

Monagan, S., et al., "Lateral Flying Qualities of Highly Augmented Fighter Aircraft," AFWAL-TR-81-3171, Vol. I, 1982.

Juri Kalviste, "Spherical Mapping and Analysis of Aircraft Angles for Maneuvering Flight," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 24, No. 8, Aug. 1987, pp.523-530.

• This paper examines the definition of a coordinated roll and a velocity vector roll.

Innocenti, M. Thukral, A., "Roll Performance Criteria for Highly Augmented Aircraft," Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1991, pp. 1277- 1286. Some additional parameters of V/STOL aircraft are found to affect the lateral- directional flying qualities at very low speeds.

Gregory Clemens Krekeler, Jr., "Aircraft Lateral-Directional Control Power Prediction for Advanced Fighter Aircraft Design," MS Thesis, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1992.

• This thesis is slightly mistitled. It investigates the determination of the control power requirements rather than the prediction of control power from a given design. In fact, it requires a detailed math model of the design. It uses coordinated rolls and level sideslips to find the required control moments. The author works for McDonnell-Douglas, and the work is closely connected to their program VECTOR.

Durham, W., Lutze, F., and Mason, W.H., "Kinematics and Aerodynamics of the Velocity Vector Roll," AIAA Paper 93-3625, Aug. 1993.

• >In this model problem, the control moments required to obtain a specified fully coordinated roll are found. It is an inverse problem which uses a program running on a PC to provide the time history of the trajectory and the required moments. From this study, maximum moments are determined for a variety of conditions and compared with new and classical analytic estimates.

Kevin D. Citurs, James E. Buckley and Kenneth A. Doll, "Investigation of Roll Requirements for Carrier Approach," AIAA Paper 93-3649, Aug. 1993.

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