Automated Aerial Refueling Research. Summary Presentation

Abstract

Briefing reports on multi-vehicle wind tunnel tests conducted by Bihrle to obtain interaction data between a KC-135 tanker and a UAV receiver. The data will be used to develop a refueling simulation to evaluate controllability and preliminary automated designs for UAV refueling. The briefing discusses use of this data with a combination of automatic refueling and collision avoidance. This is very preliminary data on interactions. It has military application for advanced UAV refueling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA421534

Entities

People

  • Jacob Hinchman

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Collisions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Military Applications
  • Refueling In Flight
  • Simulations
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.