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Integrated Flight Systems for Multi-EnginedTransport Rotorcraft*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

N. Sullivan  and
J. A. Simpson
N. Sullivan
Affiliation:
Sperry Gyroscope Company Limited
J. A. Simpson
Affiliation:
Sperry Gyroscope Company Limited
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Extract

Scheduled Transport flying has developed continuously and more or less logically over a period of more than thirty years to its present state of regularity. During this time various equipments have been introduced, to help the pilots in their task of flying from A and finding and landing at B in all weathers; and further equipments have been introduced to relieve the pilots of the considerable strain of simultaneously flying the aircraft and using these primary aids.

While many of these equipments have been brought to such a stage of usefulness and reliability as to be regarded as essential to flight safety, they have not encroached on the fundamental safety concept of:

Two pilots.

Adequate “engine out” performance.

Infallible airframe and flying controls.

Fuel reserve for diversion.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 66 , Issue 614 , February 1962 , pp. 103 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1962

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Footnotes

*

The 11th lecture to be given before the Rotorcraft Section of the Society—on 6th October 1961.

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