C*: pitch

Sun 07 September 2014

The axes is the most documented one. Maybe because it is the less easy to understand. Of course other post will consider the two other axes.

The complication arise when thinking of what can be controlled:

  • the plane's stability (called "assiette" in french) and therefore the pitch rate.
  • the angle …

Category: aviation Tagged: C star

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C*: flight control

Tue 02 September 2014

F-8C Crusader digital fly-by-wire testbed C* testbed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I begun a serie of post dedicated to fly-by-wire explanation. I focus on C* command law as it is the most documented one.  All posts from this serie will be available under the C* tag on this blog.

Some of the article are in french …

Category: aviation Tagged: C star Fly-by-wire

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R mclapply cores option

Mon 11 August 2014

This morning, I found the default behavior of the mclapply() function not quite different from the one of the lapply().  After quick investigation, I found is was due to an option not correctly set: the number of core to use.

> getOption("cores")
NULL

I must then overwrite the default mc …

Category: programming Tagged: R programming useless

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unfactor R factor

Thu 17 July 2014
Consider the following R code:
a <- factor(floor(rnorm(100)))        class(a)        summary(a)
Why should you have that? great question. Maybe because of memory place. I really don’t know, but I received some R dataset in the form of a factor. My problem is to revert this process …

Category: R Tagged: how to programming R useless

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