25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-P5.3

ON THE EFFECT OF DAMPING AND CONTROLS ON AN AIRCRAFT WAKE ENCOUNTER

L. M. B. C. Campos, J. M. G. Marques
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Keywords: Wake Encounter, Safety Distances, Aircraft Response

The analytical airplane response, in terms of roll rate and bank angle, is plotted for a B757-200 flying behind another. It is shown that in the absence of control action, the roll rate of the following aircraft goes through a peak, and then decays, leading to an asymptotic bank angle.

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