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Gust Alleviation System For General Aviation Aircraft, Lucas Coleman Mills

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

A designed control motion scheme to improve passenger comfort in general aviation aircraft by reducing normal acceleration and pitch rate due to turbulence is investigated. An aerodynamic math model is created for ViGYAN’s Active Ride Improvement System flight article, a one-eighth scale Pilatus Porter PC-6 with conventional forward main wing, aft horizontal and vertical tails, and a single engine with tractor configuration. The test article incorporates a full-span gust flap and forward mounted gust sensor to mechanize the gust alleviation control system, and these features are present in the dynamic model. The model is a two degree of freedom linear …