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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Fly-by-wire (redirect from Fly by wire (flight control))
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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Thrust vectoring (redirect from Vectoring in forward flight)
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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Aircraft (redirect from Heavier than air flight)
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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Air India Express (redirect from Air India Express Flight 611)
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 principal axes (redirect from Pitch (flight))
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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