Vectored Propulsion, Supermaneuverability and Robot Aircraft / Edition 1

by Benjamin Gal-Or

Overview

This book is designed to fill a professional vacuum in the new field of advance, high-angle, vectored stealth aircraft. The subject matter presented in the volume has never before been investigated and presented as a unified field of study because it covers entirely new fields and because specialized fragments of this unified field are scattered throughout literature in specific problems. The book is of interest to aeronautical and mechanical engineers, electrical and control engineers, aerospace industry, USAF, US Navy, NASA, pilots and instructors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387971612
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	03/12/1991
Series:	Ifip Series on Computer Graphics
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Glossary and Notation.- The main problems of thrust-vectored maneuverability • Vectored Aircraft: Breaking the “Stall Barrier” • The New Standard Technology • Civil Applications.- Soviet and Western Concepts • Research tools • Cold propulsion • The Fundamental Definitions of Pure Vectored Aircraft (PVA).- Pure Sideslip Maneuvers (PSM) • Combat Applications •.- Partially-Vectored Aircraft.- Agility, Supermaneuverability and Supercontrollability.- Load factors.- “Energy” Vs. “Angles” Fights • Time Lags •.- The Overall Combat Picture.- Minimum Time Turns • Low Observability • Stealth RPVs.- The Time Gaps.- New Educational Shifts.- Concluding Remarks.- Lecture I: Fundamental Concepts Revisited and Redefined.- New Missions and Modified Design Trends.- Early Conceptual Design Limitations.- Internal Thrust Vectoring.- Engine Nozzle Redefined.- Performance Comparisons.- Subsonic Yaw-Pitch-Roll Thrust Vectoring.- Lecture II: Vectored Aircraft and Supermaneuverability.- Yaw-Pitch Vectoring and Supercirculation.- Pure Jetborne Flight Control.- STOL or V/STOL Vectored Aircraft.- Dimensionless Numbers for Pure Vectored Aircraft.- Emergency Landing.- Air-to-Air Operations.- Air-to-Ground Operations.- Propulsion and Supermaneuverability.- Maneuver Analysis.- Controllability Limits.- High-Alpha Flight Envelopes.- The Non-Availability of a “Vectored Inlet”.- Lecture III: The Matrix of Unknown Variables of Vectored Aircraft.- Reservations and Precautions.- Technology Limits.- Cooling Limits.- Nozzle Aspect Ratio Limits.- Aerodynamic Effects.- Nozzle Coefficients Revisited.- Thrust Vectoring Range.- Induced drag and Supercirculaton.- Lecture IV: Vectored Aircraft as R&D Tools, or as Super-Agile Robotic Flying Systems.- Cruise Missiles, RPVs, etc.- Expanded Missions Vs. R&D tools.- Cost-Effectiveness of Flying Vectored RPVs.- Synergetic Studies.- Master Plan and New Programs.- Scaling Consideratons.- Lecture V: Partially Vectored Aircraft.- Canard-Configured Vectored Aircraft.- Upgrading extant Aircraft to Become Vectored Fighters — The Vectored F-15 Fighter.- Upgrading F-l8 and F-16 Fighters.- The Search for Design Philosophy in the Post-ATF Era.- Lecture VI: The Pros and Cons of Internal Thrust Vectoring.- Is ETV Effective in the RaNPAS-PST Domain?.- The Propulsion System of the Vectored X-31, X-29, etc.- Stability and Flight Control.- Power-Lift Aircraft.- Appendix A: A Brief Historical Survey.- Appendix B: Powerplant Technology Limits.- Beyond the Year 2000/RCC/STOVL.- Current-Technology Limits and Trends.- Whole-System Engineering Approach.- European Fighter Engines.- New Fighter Engines: The ATF and Other New Engines.- The MiG-29 and Su-27 Propulsion Systems.- Variable Cycle, Turbine Bypass, and Supersonic-Fan Engines.- Appendix C: Nozzle Performance [Data-Base-1].- Appendix D Nozzle Synergetic Effects [Data-Base-2].- Appendix E: Temperature Distribution Test Facility.- Appendix F: Limiting Engine-Inlet Envelopes and IFPC.- PST Inlet Design.- IFPC Transient Definitions.- Appendix G: On Some Other Vectored/Stealth Aircraft Consideratons.- Appendix H: Thought-Provoking and Thought-Depressing Quotations.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Fundamental explanations and step-by-step illustrations of the new aircraft design and flight methodologies. Following an introduction, specific subjects are presented as "Lectures" which could be adopted for a one-semester course for graduate engineering students or for advanced pilots. The author heads the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is editor-in-chief of the International journal of turbo and jet engines. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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