The C-17A was known for Level 2 handling qualities during aerial-refueling and extensive turbofan time delay during both aerial-refueling and powered-lift configuration landing. This increased the pilot compensation required for aerial-refueling and decreased safety margins for adverse wind condition landings. The Aerial-Refueling Handling Qualities Improvement (ARHQI) was a three-axis control law designed to improve HQ with a vertical-speed feedback loop. Additionally, ARHQI implemented flap and spoiler bias with elevator feedback to create a throttle-controlled drag differential, with zero net pitching moment, to augment relative fore-aft control and reduce time delay. Robust Flight Path Control was a control law designed to reduce time delay by mixing flap, spoiler, and elevator with throttle movement to increase powered-lift control. These two control laws were developed in a risk-reduction program including control law first-flight, safety build-up, in-flight control law tuning, offset landings, tanker contacts, and lessons learned for future flight control developmental testing.
Developing C-17A Control Laws In-Flight
2018
28 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Information Systems , Combat Vehicles , Aircraft , Engineering , Wind , Department of defense , Engines , Information operations , Lessons learned , Recovery , Vehicles , Workload , Compensation , Flight , High bypass turbofans , Powered lift , Test and evaluation , Turbofan engines , Tanker aircraft , Aircrafts , Flight paths , Refueling , Refueling in flight , C-17a , Control laws , Aerial refueling (ar) , Landing , Robust flight path control (rfpc) , Change-a-gain (cag) , Handling qualities (hq)
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