Conservative flight with a varying load factor and closed form solutions to the aircraft motion — A technical note

摘要

Conservative flight performance of an aircraft with constant load factor was analysed by Miele. In this paper, conservative flight with a varying load factor is considered. The load factor being a control parameter is varied in such a way that it gives rise to closed-form solutions to aircraft motion. With this typical load factor function the geometry of the trajectory has been found to be a loop as is with Miele’s analysis. Finally, the range and endurance have been determined for two different constant parameters associated with the load factor function.