This paper aims at describing how to design for human factors in the technology-intensive domain of fighter aircraft. Similar to space industry, the fighter aircraft industry has to manage technology-intensive development where the end user often has implicit or explicit human factors requirements or expectations that has to be managed though design. This paper describes the specifics of the do...

Abstract High performance aircraft of the future will be designed lighter, more maneuverable, and operate over an ever expanding flight envelope. One of the largest differences from the flight control perspective between current and future advanced aircraft is elasticity. Over the last decade, dynamic inversion methodology has gained considerable popularity in application to highly maneuverable...

Aircraft designers commit significant resources to the design of aircraft in meeting performance goals. Despite fulfilling traditional design requirements, many fighter aircraft have encountered buffet loads when demonstrating their high angle-of-attack maneuver capabilities. As a result, during test or initial production phases of fighter development programs, many new designs are impacted, us...

Serum levels of cortisol and testosterone were measured in 39 United States Air Force personnel on active duty flying status. The subjects selected belonged to one of the following categories: pilot of a fighter-type aircraft, nonpilot on a fighter plane, pilot of a cargo-type aircraft, or nonpilot on a cargo plane. Blood samples were taken prior to and after a routine flying mission. Cortisol ...

In modern fighter aircraft, several fully automatic or semi-automatic support systems have been implemented so as to aid the pilots in performing their tasks and accomplishing their missions. However, both positive and negative effects of automation have been reported. Amongst the positive effects, decreased physical workload and increased situation awareness have been documented. Amongst the n...

The Fighter problem with discrete ammunition is studied. An aircraft (fighter) equipped with n anti-aircraft missiles is intercepted by enemy airplanes, the appearance of which follows a homogeneous Poisson process with known intensity. If j of the n missiles are spent at an encounter they destroy an enemy plane with probability a(j), where a(0) = 0 and {a(j)} is a known, strictly increasing co...

The problem of attitude stabilization of a fighter aircraft is investigated in this paper. The practical aspects of a real physical system like existence of external disturbance with unknown upper bound and actuator saturation are considered in the process of controller design of this aircraft. In order to design a robust autopilot in the presence of the actuator saturation, the Composite Nonli...

Transonic and supersonic flows over isolated wings and fighter-type aircraft configurations are computed through the numerical solution of the compressible Euler equations. Appropriate singlemesh topologies are used in combination with a new multigrid time-stepping scheme for solving the Euler equations. C-H or C-0 meshes are used for the isolated wing. A novel H-0 type mesh is introduced to di...