Abstract
The problem of constant altitude, minimum-fuel airplane trajectories from arbitrary initial states to a fixed final state is considered. The fuel optimality of circular and straight-line flight paths is examined. Various types of representative extremals are computed and used to evaluate trajectories generated by an on-line algorithm. Attention is paid to the existence of Darboux points beyond which an extremal ceases to be globally optimal.
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