The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA conducted a full-scale air-to-surface impact-survivable impact demonstration with a remotely piloted transport aircraft on 1 December 1984, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The test article consisted of experiments, special equipment, and supporting systems, such as antimisting kerosene (AMK), crashworthiness structural/restraint, analytical modeling, cabin fire safety, flight data recorders, post-impact investigation, instrumentation/data acquisition systems, remotely piloted vehicle/flight control systems, range and flight safety provisions, etc. This report describes the aircraft, experiments, systems, activities, and events which lead up to the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID). An overview of the final unmanned remote control flight and sequence of impact events are delineated. Preliminary post CID observations are presented.
Full-Scale Transport Controlled Impact Demonstration Program
1987
81 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Aeronautics , Impact tests , Remotely piloted vehicles , Transport aircraft , Crashworthiness , Aircraft accidents , Crashes , Aircraft accident investigation , Antimisting fuels , Data acquisition , Flight recorders , Kerosene , Mathematical models , Crash tests