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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    performance envelope. Mechanical and hydro-mechanical flight control systems are relatively heavy and require careful routing of flight control cables...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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