In aerodynamics, the flight envelope, service envelope, or performance envelope of an aircraft or spacecraft refers to the capabilities of a design in...
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Flight envelope protection is a human machine interface extension of an aircraft's control system that prevents the pilot of an aircraft from making control...
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Aircraft (section Flight envelope)
instrumentation, navigation, radar, monitoring, and communications systems. The flight envelope of an aircraft refers to its approved design capabilities in terms...
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (redirect from Unmanned flight)
of flight controllers, to ensure safety without excessive redundancy to minimize cost and weight. Besides, dynamic assessment of flight envelope allows...
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altitude. The "corner" refers to the triangular shape at the top of a flight envelope chart where the stall speed and critical Mach number are within a few...
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Kegworth air disaster (redirect from British Midland Flight 92)
flutter was unreliable and the fan blade had to be subjected to the full flight envelope to be certain of the test results. The accident was the first hull...
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Ingenuity (helicopter) (redirect from Ingenuity flight IGY1)
improved navigational techniques, and explored the limits of its flight envelope. Ingenuity's performance and resilience in the harsh Martian environment...
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On August 9, 1978, the flight came close to crashing in downtown Athens. Despite maneuvers near the edge of the flight envelope, none of the 418 passengers...
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maiden flight". Flight International. Retrieved July 21, 2010. "Horizontal stabiliser gaps force 787 inspections and reduced flight envelope". Flight International...
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Fly-by-wire (redirect from Flight Augmentation Computer)
performance envelope. Mechanical and hydro-mechanical flight control systems are relatively heavy and require careful routing of flight control cables...
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Hot air balloon (redirect from The first hot air balloon flight in the United States)
balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket...
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Airbus A320 family (redirect from A320 flight control)
control computers and transmitted to flight control surfaces within the flight envelope protection; in the 1980s the computer-controlled dynamic system of...
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September 2010. Dual control (aviation) Flight envelope protection Flight with disabled controls Helicopter flight controls HOTAS Kite control systems List...
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have to recertificate entire F-15SA flight envelope." Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Flight International, 3 April 2013. Tirpak, John A...
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flight envelope while the flaps were retracted. Comair had not established unambiguous minimum airspeed values for flap configurations and for flight...
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higher-speed turbine engine or a scramjet operable within a turbine's slower flight envelope; the DARPA HTV-3X had demonstrated a low-speed ramjet (DMRJ) functional...
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Category A operations throughout its full flight envelope. The EC135 can be equipped with either a conventional flight deck or the Avionique Novelle glass cockpit...
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Airbus Helicopters H160 (section Flight testing)
of prototypes reached 500h of flight testing while the third should make its maiden flight, the entire flight envelope had been opened leaving hot weather...
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Because the system is controlled electronically, the flight control system can provide flight envelope protection. The electronic system is subdivided between...
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particularly troubled, being delayed by four years of delays due to flight envelope issues; it was finally certified for operation on 12 October 2012....
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aircraft. While current engines operate best at a single point in the flight envelope, sixth-generation engines are expected to have a variable cycle to...
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Ceiling (aeronautics) (redirect from Flight ceiling)
aircraft can reach under a set of conditions, as determined by its flight envelope. Service ceiling is the density altitude at which the rate of climb...
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US$50 million in damage. The Air Force halted F-35 flights on 3 July and resumed them on 15 July with flight envelope restrictions. In June 2015, the USAF Air Education...
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Cirrus SR22 (section Flight into known icing)
similar to ESPs in automobiles) on the Cirrus SR22. It included advanced flight envelope protection that could stabilize the aircraft with the push of a button...
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this occurs at the maximum speed at minimum altitude corner of the flight envelope. For a space vehicle launch, this occurs at the crossover point between...
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Airbus A330neo (section Flight testing)
first logged almost 200h in 58 flights while the second had accumulated nearly 120h in 30 flights. Its flight envelope was fully opened including flutter...
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HAL Tejas (section Flight control system)
capable, with general flight envelope expansion, increased angle of attack, higher g-limit of +9 g, updated avionics and flight control software suite...
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first flight lasted for 1 hour and 46 minutes. By July 2018, the flight test programme was focused on expanding the aircraft's flight envelope. According...
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aircraft, flight envelope protection in the aircraft flight control system prevents this from happening. The rudder remains effective in slow flight, and yaw...
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Paris Air Show. Its maiden flight was scheduled for April 2009, but was postponed. In June 2009, the UAV was shipped to a flight-testing facility located...
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