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• Airplanes -- Control systems
• Artificial satellites -- Control systems
• Guided missiles -- Control systems
• Robots -- Control systems
• Rocket engines -- Control systems
• Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Control systems
• Space vehicles -- Control systems
• Traffic signs and signals -- Control systems

• Human factors criteria for vehicle controls and displays. Appendix A. Final report. (1972), by T. B. Malone, Richard L. Krumm, S. Shenk, and H. Kao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human factors criteria for vehicle controls and displays. Appendix B. Final report. (1972), by T. B. Malone, Richard L. Krumm, S. Shenk, and H. Kao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human factors criteria for vehicle controls and displays. Appendix D. Final report. (1972), by Richard L. Krumm, T. B. Malone, H. Kao, and S. Shenk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ford experimental safety vehicle. Final report. (1973) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of recommendations to improve controls operability. Final report. (1977), by T. L. Black, Wesley E. Woodson, and P. H. Selby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime navigation/communications program. Volume III: state of the art survey. Final report. (1989), by J. W. Sennot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor vehicle driver eye position and control reach anthropometrics. Volume I. Static eye position, control reach and control force studies. Final report. (1971), by Wesley E. Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human factors criteria for vehicle controls and displays. Final report. (1972), by T. N. Malone, Richard L. Krumm, S. Shenk, and H. Kao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human factors criteria for vehicle controls and displays. Appendix C. Final report. (1972), by Richard L. Krumm, T. B. Malone, H. Kao, and S. Shenk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabrication, installation, test and evaluation of motorcycle controls and displays; gear position, indicator, non-linear throttle, tactile indicator of neutral position. Final report. (1972), by B. Livingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Test and evaluation of the AMF, Inc. and Fairchild Industries experimental safety vehicles. Volume III. ESV program summary. Final report. (1972) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An evaluation of the U.S. family sedan ESV project. Final report. (1974), by G. H. Alexander, R. D. Vergara, J. T. Herridge, W. Millicovsky, and M. R. Neale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research safety vehicle program (phase I) - volume III. RSV characterization and performance specification. Final technical report. (1975), by Patrick M. Miller, S. M. Pugliese, M. O. Ryder, Frank A. DuWaldt, and Sanborn W. Chesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analyzing the role of driver/vehicle incompatibilities in accident causation using police reports. (1976), by Michael Perel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traffic controller synchronizer field test and evaluation. Final report. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1982), by B. A. Hillson and L. M. Rodgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of an all position automatic welding machine. (1976) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preliminary human factors guidelines for automated highway system designers. Volume I: guidelines for AHS designers. (1995), by Lee Levitan, Max E. Burrus, Wende L. Dewing, W. F. Reinhart, and Robert E. Llaneras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of human factors guidelines for advanced traveler information systems and commercial vehicle operations: literature review. (1996), by Thomas A. Dingus, Melissa C. Hulse, Steven Karl Jahns, J. Alves-Foss, S. Confer, A. Rice, I. Roberts, Richard J. Hanowski, and D. Sorenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• DS, GS, and depot maintenance manual : controllers, flight, automatic pilot C-3107/ASW-12(V) and C-3107A/ASW-12(V), and panel, directional control SB-1453/ASW-12(V). ([Washington, D.C.] : Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, [1989-), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Programmed text : gyrocompass failure. (Fort Rucker, Ala. : U.S. Army Aviation Center, 1985-), by U.S. Army Aviation Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A simplified method for measuring human transfer functions / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1963), by James J. Adams, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Standard performance criteria for autopilot/coupler equipment / (Washington, D.C. : Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, [1963]), by Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (U.S.). Special Committee 79 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Development and flight tests of a gyro-less wing leveler and directional autopilot / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1974), by H. Douglas Garner, Harold E. Poole, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of design of piloted aircraft flight control systems. ([Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1952-), by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Aeronautics, C. L. Bates, and Duane T. McRuer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A formal structure for advanced automatic flight-control systems / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1975), by George Meyer, Luigi S. Cicolani, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Integrated autopilot/autothrottle for the NASA TSRV B-737 aircraft : design and verification by nonlinear simulation / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1989), by Kevin R. Bruce and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of display and autopilot functions on pilot workload for single pilot instrument flight rule (SPIFR) operations / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1987), by Roger H. Hoh, David A. Hinton, and James C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design of integrated pitch axis for autopilot/autothrottle and integrated lateral axis for autopilot/yaw damper for NASA TSRV airplane using integral LQG methodology / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1990), by Isaac Kaminer, Langley Research Center, and Boeing Commercial Airplane Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gyroscope through the ages. (Great Neck, N.Y. : Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., [1946?]), by inc Sperry Gyroscope Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aircraft accident report : inadvertent in-flight slat deployment, China Eastern Airlines flight 583, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, B-2171, 950 nautical miles south of Shemya, Alaska, April 6, 1993. (Washington, D.C. : National Transportation Safety Board ; Available through the National Technical Information Service, [Springfield, VA :, 1993]), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• A feasibility study of self-learning adaptive flight control for high performance aircraft ([Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1967]), by Stephen G. Hoppe, Claron W. Swonger, and Semmelhack Henry P. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight text of an autopilot installation as a lateral gust alleviator in a PT-26 airplane. (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, U. S. Air Force, [1956]), by Charles Chalk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of a digital automatic aircraft landing system in turbulence, (Washington, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1970), by Frank Neuman and John D. Foster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Design criteria for flightpath and airspeed control for the approach and landing of STOL aircraft / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1982), by James A. Franklin, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight control system manuals. ([Hawthorne, Calif., The Division], 1952-1956), by Inc. Northrop Aircraft and United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics. 1n (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight test of the slide-slope track and flare-control laws for an automatic landing system for a powered-lift STOL airplane / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1983), by DeLamar M. Watson, David N. Warner, Gordon H. Hardy, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development and flight test of an experimental maneuver autopilot for a highly maneuverable aircraft / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1986), by Eugene L. Duke, Ralph B. Roncoli, Frank P. Jones, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nonlinear trajectory command generator for a digital flight-control system / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1978), by Luigi S. Cicolani, Stein Weissenberger, Ames Research Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the design of a high-gain saturating control system for use as an adaptive autopilot / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [1960]), by John D. McLean, Stanley F. Schmidt, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight tests of the total automatic flight control system (TAFCOS) concept on a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1980), by William R. Wehrend, George Meyer, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research in digital adaptive flight controllers / (Washington : U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1976), by Howard Kaufman, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design, implementation and flight testing of PIF autopilots for general aviation aircraft / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1983), by John R. Broussard, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Integrated autopilot/autothrottle based on a total energy control concept : design and evaluation of additional autopilot modes / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1988), by Kevin R. Bruce and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of an autopilot on airplane responses to turbulence with emphasis on tail loads [electronic resource] / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1973), by Boyd Perry, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bureau of Aeronautics flight control system manuals / (Hawthorne, Calif. : The Division, 1952-59), by Northrop Corporation. NORAIR Division and United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Problem of the operational reliability of flight control systems and automatic piloting of aircraft. ([Washington] National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va., [1970]), by Olaf Peters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Copies of slides to be presented for NACA Conference on Automatic Stability and Control of Aircraft, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Calif., March 29 and 30, 1955. (Washington, [1955?]), by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the interfaces between flightcrews and modern flight deck systems / ([Washington, DC] (800 Independence Ave., SW, Washington 20591) : the Administration, [1996]), by United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Human Factors Team (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research and feasibility study to achieve reliability in automatic flight control systems /, by J. J. Fleck, M. F. Marx, G. T. Sendzuk, D. M. Merz, J. C. Kemp, sponsor United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, issuing body Wright Air Development Division, and General Electric Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A flight and analytical study of methods for reducing automatic-interceptor tracking errors caused by target maneuvers / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, [1956]), by Charles W. Mathews, Howard C. Kyle, Donald C. Cheatham, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method for predicting the stability in roll of automatically controlled aircraft based on the experimental determination of the characteristics of an automatic pilot / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1949), by Robert T. Jones, Leonard Sternfield, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• An investigation of the stability of a system composed of a subsonic canard airframe and a canted-axis gyroscope automatic pilot / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1950), by Robert A. Gardiner, H. O. Ankenbruck, Jacob Zarovsky, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of stability analysis techniques for automatically controlled aircraft / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1951), by Arthur L. Jones, Benjamin R. Briggs, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theoretical method of determining the control gearing and time lag necessary for a specified damping of an aircraft equipped with a constant-time-lag autopilot / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1951), by Ordway B. Gates, Albert A. Schy, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)

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