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Preliminary design features of the rascal: a nasa /army rotorcraft in-flight simulator
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Doane, Douglas H. Eshow, Michelle M. Jacobsen, Robert A. Hindson, William S. Aiken, Edwin W. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | Salient design features of a new NASA/Army research rotorcraft - the Rotorcraft-Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory (RASCAL) - are described. Using a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter as a baseline vehicle, the RASCAL will be a flying laboratory capable of supporting the research requirements of major NASA and Army guidance, control, and display research programs. The paper describes the research facility requirements of these programs together with other critical constraints on the design of the research system, including safety-of-flight. Research program schedules demand a phased development approach, wherein specific research capability milestones are met and flight research projects are flown throughout the complete development cycle of the RASCAL. This development approach is summarized, and selected features of the research system are described. The research system includes a full-authority, programmable, fault-tolerant/fail-safe, fly-by-wire flight control system and a real-time obstacle detection and avoidance system which will generate low-altitude guidance commands to the pilot on a wide field-of-view, color helmet-mounted display. |
| File Size | 1357696 |
| Page Count | 30 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940008852 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8gf5qq6q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Research And Support Facilities (air) Flight Tests Flight Safety Obstacle Avoidance Laboratories Helicopter Control Flight Control Fly By Wire Control Research Aircraft Low Altitude Flight Simulators Uh-60a Helicopter Rotary Wing Aircraft Nap-of-the-earth Navigation Helicopter Design Helmet Mounted Displays Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
