flight profile

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flight profile

Trajectory, or its graphic representation, followed by its altitude, speed, distance flown, and maneuver.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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By demonstrating the repeatability of the full flight profile through the completion of two crewed spaceflights, VG believes it has overcome a substantial number of the technical hurdles required to make the company a viable and profitable commercial service.
In the meantime, the flight profile for the Super Hornet aerial demonstration is being developed by former Blue Angels pilots at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Manned Flight Simulator at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
there's no place, even with the centrifuge, where you can properly simulate the flight profile. So, I think it's important that the pilots have a foundation that's based in years of experience in other aircraft where they've pulled tremendous loads and done other things and had to react to emergency situations countless times.
Flight Profile. The simulated flight data used in this study is based upon the recorded flight data of ANITA III balloon experiment.
During the flight, Boeing test pilots took the tanker to a maximum altitude of 39,000 feet and performed operational checks on engines, flight controls and environmental systems as part of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved flight profile. Prior to subsequent flights, the team will conduct a post-flight inspection and calibrate instrumentation.
3) Did the aircraft correctly fly the lost link flight profile?
Any single item identified as medium would raise the entire flight profile to that category.
Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO) has partnered with aerospace software specialist PACE to connect PACEs' Pacelab Flight Profile Optimizer.
Their potential for "supersonic speed, small radar signature, and very low altitude flight profile" will prove stressful for even the most modern air defense systems (p.
The revolutionary Performance-based Navigation (PBN) represents in fact a turning point in aviation which provides flight profile efficiency and airspace optimization.
Expected range on a full tank is 700-1,000 miles (up to 1,600 km), depending on the flight profile.
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