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    Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective...
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    conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system (AFCS) consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and...
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  • control a digital audio Flight control surfaces, allow a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude Diving plane, a control surface in...
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    signals transmitted by wires, and flight control computers determine how to move the actuators at each control surface to provide the ordered response....
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    control surfaces. The control surface movements depend on which of several modes the flight computer is in. In aircraft in which the flight control system...
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    navigation. It also controls the plane's flight control surfaces, such as the ailerons, elevators, and rudder. A dedicated flight control computer handles...
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    standoff weapon with flight control surfaces to give it a flatter, gliding flight path than that of a conventional bomb without such surfaces. This allows it...
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  • control surfaces begin to lose their effectiveness due to the reduction in airflow over them. Ailerons are the most affected, and roll control is significantly...
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    would normally make slight adjustments to the flight control surfaces to keep the plane stable in flight. At their cruising altitude and speed, the position...
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  • Flight controls may refer to: Flight control surfaces, the movable surfaces that control the flight of an airplane Aircraft flight control system, flight...
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    The Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) is a next-generation flight control system designed to provide increased safety for the crew and passengers...
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    September 2010, the Demon conducted its first flight without using any conventional flight control surfaces. It has been speculated that the technology...
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    aerodynamic surface such as a wing is its rear edge, where the airflow separated by the leading edge meets. Essential flight control surfaces are attached...
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    atmospheric tactical missiles, such as the AIM-9X Sidewinder, eschew flight control surfaces and instead use mechanical vanes to deflect rocket motor exhaust...
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    "mixed" input to the control surfaces to achieve the desired result. The manual throttle may also be considered a flight control because it is needed...
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    intakes. Ice buildup can change the shape of airfoils and flight control surfaces, degrading control and handling characteristics as well as performance. An...
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  • weather and effects. Flight Simulator has a physics engine to provide realistic flight control surfaces, with over 1,000 simulated surfaces, as well as realistic...
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  • aircraft flight manual of all multi-engine aircraft. When design engineers are sizing an airplane's vertical tail and flight control surfaces, they have...
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    Missile (redirect from Anti Surface Missile)
    the computed inputs to steering control and steering the missile by directing inputs to motors or flight control surfaces. The guidance system consists...
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  • Throughout a normal flight, a pilot controls an aircraft through the use of flight controls including maintaining straight and level flight, as well as turns...
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    Aileron (category Aircraft controls)
    hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. Ailerons are used in pairs to control the...
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    is slung underneath the center of lift. Flight control surfaces enable the pilot to control an aircraft's flight attitude and are usually part of the wing...
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    FDR, investigators did not have access to the position of the flight-control surfaces (rudder, ailerons, elevator, etc.) during the accident sequence...
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    of air rather than moving flight control surfaces on the exterior of the wings and tail to control its flight. Aurora Flight Sciences embarked on the development...
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    Spoileron (category Aircraft controls)
    spoilers) are spoilers that can be used asymmetrically as flight control surfaces to provide roll control. Spoilerons roll an aircraft by reducing the lift of...
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    Elevator (aeronautics) (category Attitude control)
    Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the...
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  • in severe structural damage to the undercarriage, landing gear, flight control surfaces and engine cowling. The crew continued to fly towards Dubai contrary...
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    Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions. The three critical flight dynamics parameters are the angles...
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    engines to be used to slow the aircraft. Air brakes, dedicated flight control surfaces that work by increasing drag. Large drogue parachutes, used by...
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    Aircraft flight control system Euler angles Fixed-wing aircraft Flight control surfaces Flight dynamics Moving frame Panning (camera) Six degrees of freedom...
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