24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-4.7.3

OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH ANGLE-OF-ATTACK APPROACH AND LANDING TRAJECTORIES

H. G. Visser
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Keywords: ESTOL, trajectory optimization, thrust vectoring

The study presented herein builds on extremely short takeoff and landing(ESTOL) developments. More specifically, the main goal of the present study is to shape high angle-of-attack approach trajectories in such a way that, starting at a given altitude and speed, the down-range distance to the runway threshold is minimized.

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