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Useful References

FLYING QUALITIES BIBLIOGRAPHIES

GENERAL

Twisdale, Thomas; Nelson, Mike: USAF Test Pilot School Class Notes, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, 1997

STABILITY AND CONTROL

Roskam, Jan: “Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls” , Roskam Aviation and Engineering Corporation, 1979.

McRuer, D.T., Ashkenas, I. And Graham, D., “Aircraft Dynamics and Automatic Controls,” Princton Unitersity Press, 1973.

MIL-STD-1797A, Military Specification Flying Qualities of Piloted Aircraft, ?? Chalk, C. R. Et al.; Background Information and User Guide for MIL-F-8785B (ASG), Military Specification - Flying Qualities of Piloted Airplanes; Technical Report AFFDL-TR-69-72, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, 1969.

HANDLING QUALITIES

Twisdale T., Kirsten. P., “Prediction and Occurrence of Pilot-Induced Oscillations in a Flight Test Aircraft”, Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, July-August 1984, pp. 410

Hoh. Roger, Hodgkinson, John, “Bandwidth-A Criterion for Highly Augmented Airplanes”, AGARD CP-333, April 1982

HIGH AOA TESTING

MIL-S-83691A (USAF), Stall/Post-Stall/Spin Flight Test Demonstration Requirements for Airplanes, 31 March 1971

Sharp, Patrick S.; McElroy, Collet E., Capt (USAF): Background Information and User Guide for MIL-S-83691, FTC-TD-73-2, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, March 1974.

AGARD: Stall/Spin Problems of Military Aircraft. AGARD-CP-199, June 1976.

AGARD: High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics, AGARD-CP-247, Jan. 1979 (a)

PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION

AGARD: Methods for Aircraft State and Parameter Identification. AGARD-CP-172, May 1975

AGARD: Parameter Identification. AGARD-LS-104, 1979

Maine, Richard E.; Iliff, Kenneth W.: Application of Parameter Estimation to Aircraft Stability and Control: The Output-Error Approach, NASA Reference Publication 1168, June 1986

FLIGHT TEST PROGRAMS

Pape, James K., Garland, Michael P., F-16 A/B Flying Qualities Full Scale Development Test and Evaluation. AFFTC-TR-79-10

Kidman, D.S., Vickers, Capt. J. E., Olson, Lt. B.P. Gerzanics, Major M. A. Evaluation of the F-16 Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring Aircraft, AFFTC-TR-95-12

Showers, Capt. L, Wong, W.K., Wood, K.A., Felock Major J., Project Keep Eagle F-15 High Angle-of-Attack Departure and Spin Evaluation, AFFTC-TR-95-70

Cloughley, D.C., Markofski, A.R., Flying Qualities Evaluation of the C-17A Aircraft, AFFTC-TR-95-23

Peron L. R., C-17A High Angle-of-Attack Evaluation, AFFTC-TR-95-23

LEE PERON (805) 943-6725 H/ 275-4591W peronl@hughes.net

STRUCTURES FLIGHT TEST REFERENCES (Bill Norton)

1. Davis, Harmer E., Troxell, George E. and Wiskocil, Clement T., The Testing and Inspection of Engineering Materials, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, New York, 1955.

2. Scanlan, R.H. and Rosenbaum, R., Introduction to the Study of Aircraft Vibration and Flutter, Dover Publications, New York, New York, 1968.

3. Ewins, D.J., Modal Testing: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, 1984.

4. Beranek, Leo L., Acoustic Measurements, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, 1956.

5. Norton, William J., Major, USAF, Structures Flight Test Handbook, AFFTC-TIH-90-001, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California, November 1990.

6. Aeroelasticity, Chapter 12, Flying Qualities Theory and Flight Test Techniques, USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California.

7. Jones, W.P., ed., Manual on Aeroelasticity, AGARD Vol. V, London, England, 1960.

9. Van Nunen, J.W.G. and Piazzoli, G., Aeroelastic Flight Test Techniques and Instrumentation, AGARD-AG-160, Vol. 9, AGARD, London, England, February 1979.

10. Haidl, G. and Steininger M., Excitation and Analysis Techniques for Flight Flutter Tests, AGARD Report No. 672, AGARD, London, England, January 1979.

11. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity - General Specification, MIL-A-8860.

12. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity - Flight Loads, MIL-A-8861A.

13. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity - Landplane Landing and Ground Handling Loads, MIL-A-8862.

14. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity - Miscellaneous Loads, MIL-A-8865.

15. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity Ground Tests, MIL-A-8867.

16. Military Standard Airplane Strength and Rigidity, Flutter, Divergence and Other Aeroelastic Instabilities, MIL-A- 008870.

17. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity - Flight and Ground Operations Tests, MIL-A-8871A.

18. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity, Sonic Fatigue, MIL-A-008893.

19. Aircraft Structures, General Specifications for, AFGS-87221A, United States Department of Defense, Washington D.C., 8 June 1990.

20. Military Specification Airplane Strength and Rigidity Reliability Requirements, Repeated Loads and Fatigue, MIL-A- 008866B.

21. Military Specification Airplane Damage Tolerance Requirements, MIL-A-83444.

22. Military Standard Environmental Test Methods, MIL-STD- 810C.

23. Norton, William J., Captain, USAF, Random Air Turbulence as a Flutter Test Excitation Source, Society of Flight Test Engineers 20th Annual Symposium Proceedings, September 1989.

24. Norton, William J., Captain, USAF, Limit Cycle Oscillation and Flight Flutter Testing, Society of Flight Test Engineers 21st Annual Symposium Proceedings, August 1990.

25. Norton, William J., Captain, USAF, C-17A Landing Gear Dynamic Stability Testing, AFFTC-TR-93-03, AFFTC, Edwards AFB, CA, May 1993 and Norton, William J., Captain, USAF, C-17A Landing Gear Shimmy Testing, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium of the Society of Flight Test Engineers, July 1993, page 6-39 to 6-53.

26. Norton, William J., Major, USAF and John C. Wilson, C-17A Airloads Flight Testing, AFFTC-TR-94-18, AFFTC, Edwards AFB, CA, July 1995 and Norton, William J., Major, USAF and Melroy, Pamela C., Major, USAF, C-17A Airloads Flight Testing, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Society of Experimental Test Pilots Symposium, August 1994.

27. Norton, William J., Major, USAF, “Aeroelastic Pilot-in-the-Loop Oscillations,” in AGARD AR-335 Flight Vehicle Integration Panel Workshop on Pilot Induced Oscillations, February 1995, Proceedings of the NATO Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research & Development (AGARD) Flight Vehicle Integration Panel Workshop on Pilot-Induced Oscillations, May 1994.

28. Norton, William J., Captain, USAF, “Aeroelastic Pilot-Induced Oscillation,” in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Society of Flight Test Engineers Symposium, August 1992.

29. Watson, A.J., “Development and Flight Testing of a Surface Pressure Measurement Installation on the EAP Demonstrator Aircraft,” AGARD Conference Proceedings 519.

30. Kirsten, Paul W., “Flight Control System Structural Resonance and Limit Cycle Oscillation,” in AGARD Conference Proceedings No. 233, Flight Test Techniques.

31. Zimmerman, Norman H., Prediction of Flutter Onset Speed Based On Flight Testing at Sub-Critical Speeds, in AIAA/AFFTC/NASA-FRC Conference on Testing of Manned Flight Systems, 4-6 December 1963.

32. Farley, Harold C., Jr., and Abrams, Richard, F-117A Flight Test Program, Thirty-Sixth Symposium Proceedings, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 1990.

33. Sims, Robert, McCrosson, Paul, Ryan, Robert and Rivera, Joe, “X-29A Aircraft Structural Loads Flight Testing,” Society of Flight Test Engineers 20th Annual Symposium Proceedings, 18 to 21 September 1989.

34. Ramsey, Kenneth A., “Effective Measurements for Structural Dynamics Testing,” Sound and Vibration, November, 1975, pp. 24-35.

35. Halvorsen, William G. and Brown, David L., “Impulse Technique for Structural Frequency Response Testing,” Sound and Vibration, November, 1977, pp. 8-21.

36. Stroud, Richard C., "Excitation, Measurement, and Analysis Methods for Modal Testing", in Sound and Vibration, August 1987.

37. Lally, Robert W., “Testing the Behavior of Structures,” Test. August/September, 1978.

38. Stahle, Clyde V., “Modal Test Methods and Applications,” in The Journal of Environmental Sciences, January/February, 1978.

39. Frost, W.G., Tucker, P.B. and Wayman, G.R., “Captive Carriage Vibration of Air-to-Air Missiles on Fighter Aircraft,” The Journal of Environmental Sciences, September/October 1978.

40. Lang, George F., Understanding Vibration Measurements, Application Note 9, Rockland Scientific Corporation, Rockleigh, New Jersey, December 1978.

41. Petterson, Arnold P.G. and Bross, Erwin E., Jr., Handbook of Noise Measurement, GenRad Incorporated, Concord, Massachusetts, 1978.

42. The Fundamentals of Modal Testing, Application Note 243-3, Hewlett-Packard Company, 1986.

43. Understanding Vibration Measurements, George F. Lang, Application Note 9, Rockland Scientific Corp., December 1978.

44. Skopinski, T.H., Aiken, William S., Jr. and Huston, Wilbur B, Calibration of Strain Gage Installations in Aircraft Structures for the Measurement of Flight Loads, NACA Report 1178, 1954.

45. Flutter Testing Techniques, NASA SP-415, October 1975.

46. Sanford, M.C., Irving, A. and Gary, D.L., Development and Demonstration of a Flutter-Suppression System Using Active Controls, NASA TR R-450, December 1975.

47. Lenzi, David C. and Cogburn, Lowell T., AFTI/F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing Ground Vibration Test, AFFTC-TR-85-1, AFFTC, Edwards AFB, California, February 1985.

48. Graf, Phil A. and Drake, Michael L. Elimination of KC- 135A Aft Fuselage Acoustic Fatigue Failures, UDR-TR-85-22, University of Dayton Research Institute, 31 January 1985.

49. Allemang, R.J., Rost, R.W. and Brown D.L., Multiple Input Estimation of Frequency Response Functions: Excitation Considerations, 83-DET-73, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

50. Smith, T.D., “A Pressure Plotting Technique for Flight Loads Measurement,” British Aerospace Public Limited Company.

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