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Advanced composite airframe program: today's technology
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Mazza Sr., L. Thomas Good, Danny E. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Description | The Advanced Composite Airframe Program (ACAP) was undertaken to demonstrate the advantages of the application of advanced composite materials and structural design concepts to the airframe structure on helicopters designed to stringent military requirements. The primary goals of the program were the reduction of airframe production costs and airframe weight by 17 and 22 percent respectively. The ACAP effort consisted of a preliminary design phase, detail design, and design support testing, full-scale fabrication, laboratory testing, and a ground/flight test demonstration. Since the completion of the flight test demonstration programs follow-on efforts were initiated to more fully evaluate a variety of military characteristics of the composite airframe structures developed under the original ACAP advanced development contracts. An overview of the ACAP program is provided and some of the design features, design support testing, manufacturing approaches, and the results of the flight test evaluation, as well as, an overview of Militarization Test and Evaluation efforts are described. |
| File Size | 3113691 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19880007253 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5hb4177q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1988-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Design, Testing And Performance User Requirements Aircraft Production Costs Flight Tests Structural Design Performance Tests Composite Materials Airframes Helicopters Cost Reduction Military Technology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
