Aircraft instruments to measure speed, altitude, outside air temperature and pressure. Determination of flight characteristics of aircraft such as maximum speed, best climb rate, service ceiling, range endurance etc. with turbojet and turboprop engines. Flight test techniques to evaluate aerodynamic derivatives.
Aircraft drag polar determination.
Aircraft stability and control characteristics evaluation. Methods of extracting stability derivatives from flight test data, equation error method, output error methods. Flight testing at limited speeds and Mach numbers in the flight regimes restricted by strength, flutter, vibration, stability and controllability, aerodynamic heating. M.G. Kotik et al., Flight Testing of Aircraft, NASA,TTF 442, 1967. II, Stability and Control, Pergamon Press, 1957.