Extraction of Lateral-Directional Stability and Control Derivatives for the Basic F-18 Aircraft at High Angles of Attack

ABSTRACT 1NOMENCLATURE 1INTRODUCTION 3VEHICLE DESCRIPTION 4INSTRUMENTATION AND DATA ACQUISITION 5PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION METHODOLOGY 6RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 9Parameter Identification Maneuvers 9Extracted Stability and Control Derivatives 11CONCLUDING REMARKS 12REFERENCES 14 TABLE F-18 aerodynamic control surface position and rate limits 5

[1]  R. E. Maine,et al.  SUBSONIC STABILITY AND CONTROL DERIVATIVES FOR AN UNPOWERED, REMOTELY PILOTED 3/8-SCALE F-15 AIRPLANE MODEL OBTAINED FROM FLIGHT TEST , 1976 .

[2]  Vladislav Klein,et al.  Aerodynamic parameters of High-Angle-of attack Research Vehicle (HARV) estimated from flight data , 1990 .

[3]  Stephen A. Whitmore,et al.  Preliminary results from a subsonic high angle-of-attack flush airdata sensing (HI-FADS) system: Design, calibration, and flight test evaluation , 1990 .

[4]  Daniel W. Banks,et al.  Surface flow visualization of separated flows on the forebody of an F-18 aircraft and wind-tunnel model , 1988 .

[5]  David M. Richwine,et al.  In-Flight Flow Visualization Characteristics of the NASA F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle at High Angles of Attack , 1989 .

[6]  R. E. Curry,et al.  A smoke generator system for aerodynamic flight research , 1989 .

[7]  K. W. Iliff,et al.  Determination of stability derivatives from flight data using a Newton-Raphson minimization technique , 1972 .

[8]  Stephen A. Whitmore,et al.  A preliminary look at techniques used to obtain airdata from flight at high angles of attack , 1990 .

[9]  Kenneth W. Iliff,et al.  Identification and Stochastic Control of an Aircraft Flying in Turbulence , 1978 .

[10]  R. E. Maine,et al.  Practical aspects of a maximum likelihood estimation method to extract stability and control derivatives from flight data , 1976 .

[11]  Robert R. Meyer,et al.  Flow Visualization Techniques for Flight Research , 1989 .