Advanced design tools, control devices, and supermaneuverability concepts provide innovative solutions to traditional aircraft design trade-offs. Emerging technologies enable improved agility throughout the performance envelope. Unmanned Air Vehicles provide an excellent platform for dynamic measurements and agility research. A 1/8-scaled F-16A ducted-fan radio-controlled aircraft was instrumented with a telemetry system to acquire angle of attack, sideslip angle, control surface deflection, throttle position, and airspeed data. A portable ground station was built to record and visually present real-time telemetry data. Flight tests will be conducted to acquire baseline high angle-of-attack performance measurements, and follow-on research will evaluate agility improvements with varied control configurations.
Development of Telemetry for the Agility Flight Test of a Radio Controlled Fighter Model
1992
90 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Aeronautics , Avionics , Common Carrier & Satellite , Remotely piloted vehicles , Radio telemetry , Aircraft models , Flight testing , Air , Airspeed , Angle of attack , Angles , Attack , Commerce , Configurations , Control , Control surfaces , Deflection , Ducted fans , Dynamics , Fans , Flight , Ground stations , High angles , Platforms , Real time , Records , Sideslip , Stations , Time , Tools , Unmanned , Vehicles , Aeronautical engineering , Maneuverability , Jet fighters , Calibration , Theses , Trade off analysis
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