Kinetic characteristics analysis of aircraft during heavy cargo airdrop

Airdrop is the most important approach for crisis transaction and unexpected events, it is necessary to investigate the flight characteristics of transport aircraft during the dropping process. This paper mainly focuses on the stability, controllability and model simplification of large aircraft with heavy cargo airdrop. In this process, the primary elements which have impact on force and moment are studied theoretically, the role of cargo mass, moving parameters and other factors on dynamical characteristics have been assessed by simulation and analysis. And then the aircraft model simplification is completed for control system designing in future. All the work above shows that the parameters of cargo moving play a dominant role in flight characteristics and the flight equations can be simplified to reduce the design complexity.