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Development and Application of a Calculation Program for the Landing Distance of Civil Aircraft
The landing distance of civil aircraft is the key parameter to evaluate aircraft landing performance, which is significantly important to flight...
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Design and Experimental Validation of an Adaptive Landing Gear for Safe Landing on Uneven Grounds of VTOL UAVs in the Context of Lightweight and Fast Adaptations
One of the most fundamental problems of rotary-wing aircraft that can take off and land vertically is that they cannot land safely when the ground on...
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Sensitivity analysis of urban air mobility aircraft design and operations including battery charging and swap**
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an evolving concept of passenger transportation providing on-demand flights within metropolitan environments, wherefore...
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Mechanical Modeling and Simulation for the Take-Off and Landing Performance Calculation of Low-Cost UAVs
Take-off and landing performance, which is supposed to satisfy high standard and always plays an important role during the whole lifespan of an...
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Landing Gear Systems in Aircraft
In this chapter, first, basic information about the landing gear (definition, purpose, and duties, etc.) is given. Examples of different aircraft are...
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Trajectory Optimization and Control Algorithm of Perch Landing for Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Recent years, many researches have begun to study bird-like perch landing method. The advantage of perch landing for fixed-wing aircraft is that the...
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Stabilization of the vertical take-off of a rigid flying wing for an airborne wind energy system
Airborne wind energy is an emerging technology that harvests wind energy with flight systems connected via a tether to the ground. In the project...
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GreatBlue: a 55-Pound Vertical-Takeoff-and-Landing Fixed-Wing sUAS for Science; Systems, Communication, Simulation, Data Processing, Payloads, Package Delivery, and Mission Flight Performance
As small, uncrewed systems (sUAS) grow in popularity and in number, larger and larger drone aircraft will become more common–up to the FAA limit of...
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Simulation of Atmospheric Disturbance During Approaching and Landing of Civil Aircraft
In order to study the safety of civil aircraft during approach and landing, models of mean wind, turbulence and wind shear were established. The mean...
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Method of Determining Statistical Characteristics of Temperature Profile Measurement Errors for the Aircraft Take-off and Landing Phases
The air temperature and its profile is the most essential parameter of the atmospherse subject to be measured and predicted. It has a significant...
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Investigation of Lifting Properties of the Fuselage Constructed by Airfoils with Air Extraction at the Upper Critical Point for a Short Take-Off and Landing Air Taxi
AbstractIn this paper, we numerically study the aerodynamics of the air taxi fuselage, the shape of which is obtained by solving the inverse problem...
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Research on Flight Test Technologies of FMS Vertical Profile for Civil Aircraft
In civil aircraft Flight Management System (FMS), vertical flight profile can provide all predicable information and performance parameters of flight...
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A UAV Autonomous Landing System Integrating Locating, Tracking, and Landing in the Wild Environment
High-reliability landing systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained extensive attention for their applicability in complex wild...
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Cable-driven legged landing gear for unmanned helicopter: Prototype design, optimization and performance assessment
Unmanned helicopters equipped with adaptive landing gear will dramatically extend their application especially in dealing with challenging terrains....
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An Evaluation on Landing Gear Configurations of Fixed-Wing, Rotary-Wing, and Hybrid UAVs
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are applied in many civil and military operation areas due to their availability and cost-efficient operational...
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Modeling the air quality impact of aircraft emissions: is area or volume the appropriate source characterization in AERMOD?
Modeling dispersion of aircraft emissions is challenging because aircraft are mobile sources with varying emissions rates at different elevations...
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LPV Model-based Adaptive MPC of an eVTOL Aircraft During Tilt Transition Subject to Motor Failure
This paper applies novel LPV (linear parameter-varying) model and MPC (model predictive control) methods to a tilt-transition process with rotor...
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Visual augmentation of deck-landing-ability improves helicopter ship landing decisions
When attempting to land on a ship deck tossed by the sea, helicopter pilots must make sure that the helicopter can develop sufficient lift to be able...
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Influence of the Ground Effect on the Precise Landing of an Unmanned Aircraft
This paper examines a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and the influence of the ground effect on the aircraft during the landing stage....
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Six-Wheel Trolley Type Landing Gear Ground Slip-Run Load Analysis Considering Fuselage Flexibility
This paper investigates the effect of fuselage flexibility on the landing gear ground skidding load in the landing gear load design of a large...