Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 86 Issue 1

Effects of adding strip flap on a plunging airfoil

Fariba Ajalli, Mahmoud Mani

The main aim of the present work is to examine the effects of trailing edge strip (TES) on the wake region of a plunging airfoil that oscillates prior and beyond the static stall…

Edge clutter rejection for PPI radar images

Weishi Chen, Huansheng Ning

Incoherent primary radar is an applicable means for security surveillance of low-altitude airspace. An experimental airspace surveillance radar system has been developed for such…

Multiple-hypothesis RAIM algorithm with an RRAIM concept

Ho Yun, Changdon Kee

This paper aims to develop and analyse a new multiple-hypothesis receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithm. The proposed algorithm can handle simultaneous multiple…

Multibody analyses for performance and aeromechanics of a rotor in low-speed flight

Jae-Sang Park

This paper aims to correlate the flexible multibody analysis for the performance, blade airloads, rotor pitch control angles, and blade structural loads of a full-scale utility…

Capacity and delay analysis for airport manoeuvring areas using simulation

Cem Cetek, Ertan Cinar, Fulya Aybek, Aydan Cavcar

– The aim of this study is to identify the nodes where congestion occurs in the manoeuvring area of a large-scale airport and to provide appropriate suggestions for improvement.

Experiences in academic flight testing education

Lorenzo Trainelli, Alberto Rolando, Giovanni Bonaita, Paolo Chimetto

The paper aims to detail the educational flight testing activities performed at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (DSTA-PoliMi)…

Liquid hydrogen tank considerations for turboelectric distributed propulsion

Paulas Raja Sekaran, Amir S. Gohardani, Georgios Doulgeris, Riti Singh

– This article aims to investigate a selected number of liquid hydrogen storage tank parameters in a turboelectric distributed propulsion concept.

Guidance and control for satellite proximity operations

Weilin Wang, Yangang Liang

In this paper, the development of relative guidance and control algorithms for proximity operations to satellite in elliptical orbit are presented. The paper aims to discuss these…

The coming disruptive storms in civil aerospace propulsion

Emeritus Professor Riti Singh

Editorial

Askin T. Isikveren