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Automated Aerial Refueling Hitches a Ride on AFF

Author
Campos, Norma V.
Published
August 2007.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Bever, Glenn, Schkolnik, Gerard, Murray, James E., and Hansen, Jennifer L.
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Summary
The recent introduction of uninhabited aerial vehicles [UAVs (basically, remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft)] has spawned new developments in autonomous operation and posed new challenges. Automated aerial refueling (AAR) is a capability that will enable UAVs to travel greater distances and loiter longer over targets. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, rapidly conceived and accomplished an AAR flight research project focused on collecting a unique, high-quality database on the dynamics of the hose and drogue of an aerial refueling system. This flight-derived database would be used to validate mathematical models of the dynamics in support of design and analysis of AAR systems for future UAVs. The project involved the use of two Dryden F/A-18 airplanes and an S-3 hose-drogue refueling store on loan from the Navy. In this year-long project, which was started on October 1, 2002, 583 research maneuvers were completed during 23 flights.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20100002874.
DRC-04-13.
NASA Tech Briefs, August 2007; 17.
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