Trim for Maximum Control Authority using the Attainable Moment Set

This paper presents a method to find trimmed flight conditions while maximizing the available control authority about one or more motion axes. Maximum pitch-up, or lift-up, control authority could find interesting application in aborted landing situations, while maximum balanced control authority about all motion axes is a reformulation of the...

A Thrust-Elevator Interaction Criterion for Aircraft Optimal Longitudinal Control

The aim of this research is to investigate the combined use of throttle and aerodynamic control vanes for aircraft optimal control. A new disruptive aircraft configuration concept is presented, featuring control vanes downstream of two rear-mounted ducted propellers. The aerodynamic interaction between the horizontal vane and the throttle is...

Assessment of Sub-scale Designs for Scaled Flight Testing

Sub-scale Flight Testing (SFT) is potentially useful in predicting aircraft flight behaviour, especially in the case of unconventional designs for which legacy information is unavailable and wind tunnel tests are unable to predict aircraft dynamics. A necessary condition for SFT is the design of properly scaled models. However, even in case of...

Aerodynamic installation effects of lateral rotors on a novel compound helicopter configuration

Installation effects of the lateral rotors for a compound helicopter were investigated by means of unsteady CFD simulations. The helicopter featured a box-wing design for additional lift in cruise and wingtip-mounted lateral rotors in pusher configuration for additional thrust in cruise and counter-torque in hover. It was found that propeller...

Exploration of Hybrid Electric Propulsion in Regional Aircraft