Short-field landing

The design and development of flying qualities for the C-17 military transport airplane

Published in Mark B. Tischler, Advances in Aircraft Flight Control, 2018

The C-17 is a long-range, air-refuelable, turbo-fan-powered, high-wing, heavy military cargo aircraft built around a large, unobstructed cargo compartment. It has a swept wing that uses supercritical airfoil technology and winglets to achieve good long-range cruise performance. A photograph of the airplane flying in its cruise configuration is shown in Fig. 1. Technologies that combine to achieve the C-17’s exceptional short-field landing/performance are the large externally blown flaps (EBFs), full-span leading-edge slats, spoilers, high-sink-rate landing gear, anti-skid braking, thrust reversers, head-up displays and sophisticated fly-by-wire flight control system. Figure 2 is a photograph of the airplane just prior to touchdown and Fig. 3 shows the pilot using throttles and head-up-display (HUD) guidance to perform the precision landing.

Modeling and performance evaluation of sustainable arresting gear energy recovery system for commercial aircraft

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Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2023

Jakub Deja, Iman Dayyani, Martin Skote

Knowing that the Mark 7 Mod 3 system was suited for the F-14D Tomcat (Eggleston 2011), it is possible to estimate how much force was applied to the cable. The aircraft maximum allowable gross landing weight equals approximately 20 metric tonnes and short-field landing maximum speed equals to 82 m/s (Department of the Navy 2004). Assuming linear deceleration, the cable in the Mark 7 Mod 3 arresting system is subjected to a force described by the following kinematic equation:

Short-field landing

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