Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 85 Issue 5

Optimization of the aircraft general overhaul process

Boško Rašuo, Gradimir Đuknić

The purpose of this paper is to present the development results of the overhaul melioration plan for the following aircraft types: MiG‐21Bis, G‐4 Galeb and SA‐341 helicopter. This…

Optimization of flatback airfoils for wind turbine blades

Xiaomin Chen, Ramesh Agarwal

In recent years, the airfoil sections with blunt trailing edge (called flatback airfoils) have been proposed for the inboard regions of large wind‐turbine blades because they…

Turbofan multiobjective‐multipoint optimization for UAV/UCAV applications

Ernesto Benini, Nicola Chiereghin

The purpose of this paper is to present a multi‐objective and multi‐point optimization method to support the preliminary design of an unmixed turbofan mounted on a sample UAV/UCAV…

GBAS landing system – precision approach guidance after ILS

Michael Felux, Thomas Dautermann, Hayung Becker

The purpose of this paper is to show the performance during flight tests of the proposed GBAS Approach Service Type D navigation – intended to support autoland operations – in…

Human factor modelling for fast‐time simulations in aviation

Olja Čokorilo

The paper aims to present the findings of a research project “Human Factors in ‘Fast‐Time’ Simulation” which was supported by Central European Air Traffic Services – CEATS…

Hybrid rocket combustion with prevaporized zone

Jih Lung Lin

Low combustion completeness has been the main defect of hybrid rockets. The present study tries to address the problem by bringing up the setup of the precombustion zone, which do…

Reusable boosted vehicle attitude controller design

Jiangtao Xu, Hui Qi, Weidong Chen, Xiande Wu

The purpose of this paper is to develop an attitude control strategy for the reusable boosted vehicle with large angle of attack, and to remove the cross coupling among roll…

Attitude scheme for satellite with defective inertia characteristic

Jin Jin, Hexi Baoyin, Junfeng Li

The purpose of this paper is to propose an attitude determination and control scheme for a low‐cost Micro‐satellite with defective inertia. Restricted by the payload design, the…