Research on flight quality test technology for probe and drogue aerial refueling of transport aircraft
The risk and difficulty of completing high-gain closed-loop tasks like aerial refueling for transport aircraft are far greater than light and small aircraft.Therefore,a research method is pro-posed for flight quality test technology based on probe and drogue aerial refueling of transport air-craft.Firstly,the flight characteristics of transport receivers arc evaluated and strategies for probe and drogue aerial refueling docking and control are explored by designing basic subset refueling tasks.Then,the PIO sensitivity is evaluated when pilots performing high-gain closed-loop tasks by designing random command tasks in specially developed target tracking system.Finally,the virtual aerial refueling test missions is designed based on the target tracking system to explore aerial refue-ling methods for transport receivers and study related flight quality test technologies.By preliminarily validation through flight tests,the method proposed can ensure the safety of high-risk flight tests and provide theoretical guidance for flight quality test in probe and drogue aerial refueling of large trans-port aircraft.
transport aircraftprobe and drogue aerial refuelingflight qualitystrategies for doc-king and controlPIO sensitivitytarget tracking system