Status of a Comprehensive Validation of the Navy's F/A-18A/B/C/D Aerodynamics Model.

Abstract

A flight test program was designed and flown with two U.S. Navy F/A-18 aircraft and the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, MD to collect data for validation of the Manned Flight Simulator's F/A-18 aerodynamics model. This paper details the flight test program and the processes used to calibrate the flight data for the creation of a truth-data set to be used for the validation as well as source for future updates. The paper presents examples of preliminary aerodynamic coefficient comparisons between model predicted values and values extracted from flight. It also provides a discussion of a coefficient comparison acceptance criteria currently being developed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1996
Accession Number
ADA309807

Entities

People

  • David R. Gingras
  • Michael S. Bonner

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aerodynamics
  • Aeronautics
  • Aircrafts
  • Astronautics
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Coefficients
  • Control Surfaces
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Information Science
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Validation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies