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Landing Field Performance of Low L/D Gliding Airframes

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Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-29-2024

Abstract

Practical High-Mach airframes need to safely land under all circumstances, including situations with engines inoperative. We review and expand upon work which originated during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s regarding “dead-stick” landing of low peak L/D research airframes (such as the X-1, X-2, X-3, X-15 and the famous “lifting body” series M2 F1, M2-F2, M2-F3,X-24 and HL-10). Such airframes will fly neither a standard stabilized approach nor execute a standard flare as would conventional aircraft. Instead, they perform a complex dynamical maneuver initiated far from the runway threshold to arrest their sink rate. We document the necessary speeds and maneuvering procedures to safely land such aircraft.

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Conference Session: Aircraft Performance

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AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2024

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