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The proper symbiosis of the human pilot and automatic flight control

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

K. H. Doetsch
K. H. Doetsch*
Affiliation:
Technical University Braunschweig/ DFVLR Braunschweig
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It is indeed a great honour and a particularly pleasing experience for me to have been invited to give the 18th Lanchester Memorial Lecture. Pleasing because it enables me to recall before such a distinguished audience, one of Lanchester's outstanding achievements in the field of aircraft stability, his phugoid theory. This slow oscillation problem has often been neglected but its implications can be vital as the Vulcan crash in 1956 emphasises, and the development of STOL with high lift has forced designers to turn again to a serious consideration of the phugoid as I will show presently in the first part of this lecture.

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Eighteenth Lanchester Memorial Lecture
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 79 , Issue 774 , June 1975 , pp. 247 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1975 

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