DocumentCode
1101424
Title
Digital Letdown Computer for Vertical Guidance
Author
Menn, Bruce E.
Issue
11
fYear
1969
Firstpage
1065
Lastpage
1068
Abstract
In the near future, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft will be flying a wide envelope of complex trajectories in the terminal area to relieve airport congestion. The digital letdown computer automatically guides a VTOL aircraft along a preselected vertical profile to the terminal area.
Keywords
Flaring curve, recursion formulae, special-purpose computer, terminal area, vertical take-off and landing aircraft.; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Automatic control; Automatic frequency control; Cities and towns; Equations; Fuels; Military computing; Flaring curve, recursion formulae, special-purpose computer, terminal area, vertical take-off and landing aircraft.;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/T-C.1969.222582
Filename
1671175
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