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A preliminary study of containment concepts for aircraft landing on elevated stol-ports
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Haviland, J. K. |
| Copyright Year | 1971 |
| Description | A preliminary study of containment systems for aircraft landing on elevated STOL-ports was conducted as part of an overall study of human acceptance problems associated with STOL operations. The study included a survey and feasibility study of different concepts and a computer analysis of four arrestment systems. The principal conclusion was that a system referred to as the FAA system appears to offer the greatest promise. In this system, standard arresting gear cables are stretched across the roof-top, at roughly 100-foot intervals, but are shielded over the 100-foot-wide primary landing strip. Thus a pilot can land with an arresting hook down, but will not contact the cable unless he swerves off the landing strip, either because he has made a bad landing, or because his landing gear has failed. It was also noted that a suitable curb or guard rail should be developed. Presently available arresting gears and nylon net barriers were considered satisfactory for the overshoot problem. |
| File Size | 1166341 |
| Page Count | 49 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19720008310 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6xw95r80 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1971-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Aircraft Safety Landing Sites Short Takeoff Aircraft Aircraft Landing Arresting Gear Abort Apparatus Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
