Flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. The primary function of these is...
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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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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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Fly-by-wire (redirect from Fly by wire (flight control))
flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface. The movements of flight controls are converted to electronic signals, and flight control...
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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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that eventually affected control surfaces leading to a loss of control. Flight 171 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bombay (now Mumbai)...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aerial refueling (redirect from In-flight refueling)
tanks. The flying boom is a rigid, telescoping tube with movable flight control surfaces that a boom operator on the tanker aircraft extends and inserts...
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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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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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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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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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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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order to minimise drag, the Ho 229 was not fitted with extraneous flight control surfaces. Its ceiling was 15,000 metres (49,000 ft). The Ho 229 was the...
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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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Balanced rudder (redirect from Balanced control surfaces)
can also be applied to elevators and ailerons; all three aircraft control surfaces may also be mass balanced, chiefly to avoid aerodynamic flutter. A...
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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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aircraft design, even down to having operable cable-connected flight control surfaces, illuminated navigation lighting on the aircraft's exterior, realistically...
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conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the...
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the flight, which blew off the aircraft's tail flight control surfaces and destroyed the aircraft's hydraulics, rendering the remaining flight control surfaces...
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Safety Board (NTSB) initially determined that a malfunction of the flight control surfaces, including a rudder or ailerons hardover or asymmetric flaps, could...
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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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