Aircraft controls

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1984-05-17

1986-05-27

Barefoot, Galen L.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft control

Automatic

244213, B64C 934, B64C 1316

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045911134

ABSTRACT:
On an aircraft having spoilers on the wing, the spoilers are converted, according to this invention, following the ACT philosophy, for use in countering gust effects. Accordingly, a sensor of gusts is arranged to transmit warning of the arrival of a significant gust to a spoiler operator which, taking into account airspeed, deploys the spoilers in a mode so that a phase of spoiler generated lift decrement is timed to coincide with effective arrival of the gust.

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patent: 2541704 (1951-02-01), Koppen
patent: 3734432 (1973-05-01), Low
patent: 4227662 (1980-10-01), Fisher et al.

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