Some longitudinal handling qualities design guidelines for active control technology transport aircraft

This report contains a summary of the main conclusions and recommendations from extensive work performed by the Flight Mechanics Action Group on Handling Qualities (FM/AGOl) of the Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe (GARTEUR). The work of this Action Group, which involved cooperation between research institutes of France ...

Failures in advanced flight control systems of future transport aircraft

Future transport aircraft will be different from to-day's in that they will be designed to be statically neutrally stable or even unstable to improve economics, while the stability will be provided by means of a fly-by-wire flight control system. Since this system will be flight critical it is necessary to develop a philosophy on the treatment...