Compound Aircraft Transport: Wingtip-Docked Flight Compared to Formation Flight
Compound Aircraft Transport (CAT) flight involves two or more aircraft using the resources of each other; a symbiotic relationship exists consisting of a host, the mothership aircraft and a parasite, the hitchhiker aircraft. Wingtip-docked flight is just as its name implies; the two aircraft are con...
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Virginia Tech
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11122 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312002-160944 |