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ACD2501
Aircraft Performance,
Performance Stability and Control
Session Objectives
• Aircraft Performance:
–BBasics
i off performance
f ( t d state
(steady t t andd accelerated)
l t d)
– Performance characteristics of aircraft for (Civil –
passenger, cargo, Military
Military- fighter, bomber)
– Range, Endurance, Rate of climb, maximum Mach number
• Stabilityy and Control
– Basics of stability : CG location , AC, limits
– Longitudinal, Lateral control
Performance Basics
Performance
Performance
Performance
Performance
Performance
Performance
Performance
Performance
Stall Speed
Stall Speed
ROC
ROC
ROC
Turn Performance
Turn Performance
Turn Performance
Range
Range
Range
Range
Range
Range
Range
Stability
Stability Analysis
Elevator, Aileron & Rudder Fixed These are at a fixed angle during the motion
Elevator, Aileron & Rudder Free They are free to adjust as the motion goes on
• Otto Lilienthal
– Determined of prop of cambered wings.
– Recorded materials, construction tech, handling char, aerodynamics
from over 2000 models
– His models were statically stable but with negligible control
• Octave Chanute
– Biplane and multiplane wings
– Wing controls and vertical tail
Stability
• An airplane may be stable under some conditions of
flight and unstable under other conditions.
• For instance, an airplane which is stable during straight
and level flight
g mayy be unstable when inverted,, and
vice versa.
– This stability is sometimes called inherent stability.
• Modern combat aircraft are deliberately made to be
inherently unstable, as this increases their
manoeuvrability (Eg TEJAS)
• This requires a sophisticated automatic artificial
stabilisation
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Dynamic Stability
1. Dynamic stability deals with the time history of the vehicle’s motion after it
initially responds to its static stability.
2. Consider an airplane flying at an angle of attack (AOA) such that the
moments about the center of gravity (cg) are zero.
3. The aircraft is therefore in equilibrium at αe and is said to be trimmed, and αe
is called the trim angle of attack.
4 Now imagine that a wind gust disturbs the airplane and changes its angle of
4.
attack to some new value α . Hence, the plane was pitched through a
displacement (α - αe )
5. Three responses are possible
Stability
Pitching Moment Vs CL
Degree of Longitudinal Stability
Effect of CG movement
FLIGHT CONTROLS
FLIGHT CONTROLS
Movingg the yyoke LEFT or RIGHT moves the ailerons on the wings
g in
opposite directions. One moves UP as the other goes DOWN.
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FLIGHT CONTROLS
Pulling back on the yoke moves the elevator on the tail UP, moving
the
h airplane
i l nose UP to climb.
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FLIGHT CONTROLS
FLIGHT CONTROLS
Brakes are
located at the
top or “toe”
of the pedal
Pilots use rudder pedals on the floor to move the rudder LEFT or
RIGHT to helpp the airplane
p turn.
Stick Force
Center
C t off Gravity
G it concerns:
Unable to compensate with
elevator in pitch axis
Weight and Balance becomes
critical – taught in a coming
lecture
Inverted Flight
B727 Spoilers
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Roll
yaw
Roll Control
Phugoid Motion
• Phugoid mode is a lightly damped long period oscillation.
• The incidence is almost constant and the aircraft varies altitude
at constant energy, trading potential for kinetic and back again
Typical
yp values for Tail volume ratio
Longitudinal Stability
lift
down lifft
ght
weig
• Static stability (tendency to return after control input)
– up elevator increases downward lift, angle of attack increases;
– lift increases, drag increases, aircraft slows;
– less
l downward
d d lift,
lift angle
l off attack
tt k decreases
d (nose
( drops).
d )
lift
down lifft
Longitudinal Modes
Lateral Stability
Lateral static stability : refers to the ability of the aircraft to generate a yawing
moment to cancel disturbances in sideslip V
Question : Which direction should the yawing moment act to align the aircraft with
th l it vector
the velocity t ?
Original Flight Direction
Lateral Stability
Anhedral
roll?
Lift
Lift
right to left
Effect of Dihedral
Dutch Roll
• Figure reveals an important fact about turns— that the load factor increases at
a terrific rate after a bank has reached 45° or 50°.
• If the load factor at 60° bank is 2 G’s, then at 80° bank it is more than 5G’s.
• The wing must produce lift equal to these load factors if altitude is to be
maintained.
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V-g Diagram
• Aircraft’s operational envelope is presented as V-g diagram
Tail Lift
Aircraft c.g.
Directional Stability
Freestream comes from pilot’s
right side, due to cross wind. The force on the tail
I causes nose to rotate to left
It l f causes the aircraft
viewed from the top. to rotate back to
original direction.
A cross wind may cause the nose to rotate about the vertical axis,
changing the flight direction.
direction
The vertical tail behaves like a wing at an angle of attack,
producing a side force, rotates the aircraft to its original direction.
All of this occurs without pilot action or intervention.
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Directional Control
Directional Control
• Rudder
• Rotates the airplane about its vertical axis (Yawing)
• Also provides
pro ides a form of roll control because
beca se the application of
rudder causes yaw which will induce a roll.
Lateral Stability
Directional Stability
Session Objectives
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