21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-1.5.3

NEW FLIGHT CONTROL LAWS FOR LARGE CAPACITY AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTATION ON AIRBUS A340

Kubica F.
Aerospatiale, France

Keywords: flight control laws, large capacity aircraft experimentation, airbus a340

This paper presents the main stages of an experimentation on Airbus A340 to test new flight control laws. These control laws actively control the first flexible modes of the aircraft in order to increase the flight control system bandwidth. The results obtained during the flight test allow the concept to be validated, and a new standard to be defined for the flight control system and autopilot of future large civil aircraft, like the A340-500/600 and the A3XX.

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