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Corner speed versus optimum turn speed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Kutschera
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
P. M. Render
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

Extract

Work has been carried out by Kutschera on how to assess, at the conceptual design stage, the performance of fighter aircraft. As part of this work, Kutschera reviewed a number of existing and proposed metrics for assessing aircraft performance. Reference 4 also describes how the performance of an aircraft can be quantified by three types of metric. The first type are steady state or point performance metrics, such as turn rate plots and energy manoeuvrability diagrams. The second type are manoeuvrability metrics and the last are agility metrics.

Type
Technical Note
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2003 

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References

1. Kutschera, A. and Render, P. Performance assessment of thrust vectoring controlled post stall manoeuvrable fighter aircraft using minimal input data, paper number AIAA-99-4020, AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 1999.Google Scholar
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