It was nicknamed “loach,” an acronym for L.O.H. The YOH-6A was a two-place light helicopter, flown by a single pilot. It had a four-bladed, articulated main rotor which turned counter-clockwise, as seen from above. (The advancing blade is on the helicopter’s right.) Stacks of ...
“It is necessary to remove the artificial separation of functions at the aircraft pre-design stage and to plan for a high production rate of aircraft manufacturing, assembly and installation right at the start,” said Paolo Trinchieri, Project Officer at Clean Sky. “It is not only a questio...
The achievement of high block speed implies high cruising speed in flight: as fast as possible for the weight of fuel consumed. There is also, by implication, the need for easy turnaround on the ground, which leads back again to layout and structural design. A useful way of drawing these...
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The ideal morphing airplane is represented as a single point in the upper right corner of Figure 2. This aircraft has the ability to change outer mold line shape so drastically that it fulfills extreme mission requirements by simply changing shape to match shape to required performance. The ...
The acronym TCAS has been generally assigned to systems conforming with published standards. TCAS is an acronym for Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems. The TCAS standards call for the utilization of reply signals from airborne transponders as the basis of operation. Existing standards for ...
The information regarding limit of prohibited penetration zones contained in the TDB database60allows the autonomous protection system to model a surface surrounding and/or overlapping a prohibited penetration zone that the aircraft has no right to cross, for example by a ground trace and a minimum...
altitude (e.g. with no landmark), the FMS system is itself a complex tool. This complexity is manifested not only by the quantity of information provided by the system, but also by the difficulty experienced by pilots in accessing the right information—and what is more—at the right time...
The subject of the invention is an onboard aircraft landing system, of a type known by the acronym GLS (GNSS Landing System). In particular, it relates to aiding piloting in the approach phase, that is to say the phase which precedes the landing of the aircraft....