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Flight Simulation
and Handling
Qualities
The Liverpool Wright
project has been able to recreate the experience of flying the
Wright brothers’ aircraft within the University of Liverpool’s
state-of-the-art flight simulation laboratory. Handling qualities
is the study of the behaviour of the pilot-vehicle system in the
performance of specific tasks. The project used this approach to
provide a
framework within which the aircraft were assessed and analysed. A
series of simulation trials were
conducted using test pilots
where manoeuvres such as the rollstep were designed to investigate
the flight characteristics. The simulation
models were developed using the data acquired from the wind tunnel
experiments. These high fidelity simulation models are able to
reproduce the dynamic motions that the real aircraft would
experience.
