01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Basics and Theory)
LONGITUDINAL STABILITY PARAMETERS FOR FLYING BOOM AERIAL REFUELING
L.H. Peristy¹, R.E. Perez¹; ¹Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
This work introduces a new parameter called Positional Static Margin (PSM), which is used to make predictions about aircraft longitudinal stability during flying boom aerial refueling. A vortex lattice method is used to examine the PSM of different tanker-receiver pairs, with aircraft geometry being demonstrated as an important consideration, independent of flight conditions.