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Aerodynamic parameters of the navion airplane extracted from flight
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Suit, W. T. |
| Copyright Year | 1972 |
| Description | An iterative method, which is characterized as a maximum-likelihood minimum-variance technique, was used to extract the aerodynamic parameters of a Navion airplane from flight data. The purposes were to compare the results with parameters obtained from wind-tunnel tests and with results obtained by analog matching the same data, and to develop techniques for application of the parameter extraction program. Results from the study showed that the parameter-extraction program can produce aerodynamic parameters which will permit close estimation of the aircraft time histories used in the extraction process. The program determined an estimate of the standard deviations of the states and parameters. These estimates were used to indicate how well the calculated states fit the flight data and the confidence in the values of the estimated parameters. The study also showed that the values of the parameters were affected by the data and mathematical model used during the extraction process. Because of the lack of confidence in the parameters extracted by use of some of the sets of data, several parameters were estimated by other methods. By using a combination of methods, a set of parameters which gave a fit to the data was obtained. |
| File Size | 2278679 |
| Page Count | 63 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19720011369 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6f23qk70 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1972-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Flight Tests Iterative Solution Aerodynamic Coefficients Mathematical Models Maximum Likelihood Estimates Parameterization Aerodynamic Characteristics Navion Aircraft Matrices Mathematics Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
