Automatic longitudinal guidance for VTOL aircraft Interim scientific report
Development of automatic guidance modes and associated software for V/STOL avionics program
Hoffman, W. C.↗
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Development of automatic guidance modes and associated software for V/STOL avionics program
Subsonic glide landing approach guidance for unpowered lifting vehicles, using perturbation feedback and approximation of heading and position coordinates
Perturbation feedback guidance for terminal phase of lifting body entry vehicle
Energy state approximation for supersonic aircraft performance optimization with extension to maximum range problems, noting comparison with complex dynamic models