The NASA Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research Unmanned Aerial System project's capabilities were expanded by updating the system design and concept of operations. The new remotely piloted airplane system design was flight tested to assess integrity and operational readiness of the design to perform flight research. The purpose of the system design is to improve aviation safety by providing a capability to validate, in high-risk conditions, technologies to prevent airplane loss of control. Two principal design requirements were to provide a high degree of reliability and that the new design provide a significant increase in test volume (relative to operations using the previous design). The motivation for increased test volume is to improve test efficiency and allow new test capabilities that were not possible with the previous design and concept of operations. Three successful test flights were conducted from runway 4-22 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility.
Air STAR Beyond Visual Range UAS Description and Preliminary Test Results
2016 AIAA SciTech Conference ; 2016 ; San Diego, CA, United States
2016-01-04
Conference paper
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English
AirSTAR Beyond Visual Range System Description and Preliminary Test Results (AIAA 2016-0882)
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