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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2014.42.7.567

Flight Demonstration Test of a Smart Skin Antenna for Communication and Navigation  

Kim, Min-Sung (Agency for Defense Development)
Park, Chan-Yik (Agency for Defense Development)
Cho, Chang-Min (Agency for Defense Development)
Yoon, Jong-Ho (Korea Aerospace Industries)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.42, no.7, 2014 , pp. 567-575 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper suggests an installation procedure of a smart skin prototype into an aircraft, flight demonstration test procedures and test results. Four communication and navigation antennas are embedded into one Conformal Load-bearing Antenna Structure(CLAS). Log periodic patch type antenna was designed as a multi-band antenna to cover four antenna frequency bands. The requirements of CLAS were verified by ground tests before aircraft installation. A CLAS speed-brake was installed into KT-1 aircraft and performances of dual antennas were verified as multi-antenna tests on the ground. Electromagnetic compatibility tests were conducted to check compatibility between the CLAS and all existing equipments. Flight demonstration tests were conducted by one sortie of flight test for one antenna. The activeness and continuity of communication and navigation signal during the flight, null area of antenna signal along the circling flight were monitored. The embedded antennas worked better than expected during four sorties of flight tests.
Keywords
Conformal Load-bearing Antenna Structure; Flight Demonstration Test; Communication and Navigation; CLAS Speed-brake;
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