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High Alpha handling (F-16)

Postby qman787 » Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:08 pm

Hello,

Apologize if this topic was already discussed, if so, please post the link to the regarded thread.
1. I'm looking for any examples of high AoA handling via LE slats deployment on F-16 FDM or anything similar to it. Till now nothing useful found.
2. Is there any way to stabilize aircraft's high alpha handling other then vectored thrust techniques.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: High Alpha handling (F-16)

Postby erik » Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:39 pm

This is discussed in NASA tp-1538.
One of the techniques used was to deploy the speed-brake, which generates just enough downwards pitching moment to prevent stall conditions.

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Re: High Alpha handling (F-16)

Postby Necolatis » Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:20 pm

That same document also describes how the LE flaps were deployed.
That what the FG F16 LE flaps were modeled after.

See: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/f16/blob ... ntrols.xml
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Re: High Alpha handling (F-16)

Postby erik » Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:32 am

Also, I realized later, the horizontal tails where increased in size after that report. To have more downwards pitching control in high angle of attack situations.

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