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Flight Test of Stalling Speed for ChangGong-91 (창공-91 실속속도 비행시험)

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Chil-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • The stalling speed flight test of light airplane, ChangGong-91, was performed to acquire the certification. With power-off engine condition, the wings level stall flight tests were conducted at the aircraft configuration of various flap angle - clean, 20degree, and full flap, respectively. They were performed considering with the combination of the maximum and minimum test weight, and forward and afterward center of gravity. The stalling speeds and the minimum speeds of light airplane were determined from the results of flight test. Also, the appropriateness of stall warning speeds are evaluated through the flight test measures. The airplane is recoverable only with pitch control and engine throttle from stall state without exceptional operation.

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CFD ANALYSIS ON AIRCRAFT STORE SEPARATION VALIDATION (무장분리 안전성을 위한 전산해석)

  • Jueng, H.S.;Yoon, Y.H.;Lee, S.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.14-16
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    • 2007
  • A critical problem in the integration of stores into new and existing aircraft is the safe separation of the stores from the aircraft at a variety of flight conditions representative of the aircraft flight regime. Typically, the certification of a particular store/aircraft/flight condition combination is accomplished by a flight test. Flight tests are very expensive and do expose the pilot and aircraft to a certain amount of risk. Wind tunnel testing, although less expensive than flight testing, is still expensive. Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) has held out the promise of alleviating expensive and risk by simulating weapons separation computationally. The forces and moments on a store at carriage and at various points in the flow field of te aircraft can be computed using CFD applied to the full aircraft and store geometry. This study needs full dynamic characteristics study and flow analysis for securing store separation safety. Present study performs dynamic simulation of store separation with flow analysis using Chimera grid scheme which is usually used for moving simulations.

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Study on the stall characteristics improvement and compliance verification of the G.A. airplane (소형비행기 실속특성 향상 및 적합성검증 방안 연구)

  • Choi, Joowon;Kim, Jinsoo
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2014
  • This is a research on the method of how to improve stall characteristics for the small general aviation airplanes to meet the FAR part 23 requirements. This research is based on the experience of certification flight tests of KC-100 airplane for Korea type certification. KAS/FAR Part 23.201/203 are the stall characteristics requirements. 23.201 requires to show the stable stalling tendency of the wings level stall and 23.203 requires to show the stable stalling tendency of stall characteristics during turning flight. In this paper, the stall characteristics requirements, improvement methods and flight test experience of KC-100 airplane for type certification.

A real time performance evaluation technique of guidance and control systems (유도조종장치의 실시간 성능평가 기법)

  • 김태연;양태수;김영주;이종하
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10a
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    • pp.165-170
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    • 1992
  • In this paper, the Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation(HILS) of missile systems are studied. The HILS is an effective performance evaluation technique that bridges the simulation fidelity gap between analytic all-digital simulations and actual flight tests of missile systems. The HILS may be required to perform system integration tests, performance evaluation at system or subsystem level. Major elements of this HILS facility will include the flight table, simulation computers, I/O computer and peripheral equipments. HILS of missile systems typically involve computer modeling of flight dynamics coupled with a hardware guidance and control(G/C) systems. This paper describes a real time performance evaluation technique of a G/C system, Development of a HILS for a Autopilot of SAM G/C will be used as an example.

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Performance Analysis of a Flow Passage Opening Device through Low Speed Aircraft Captive Flight Tests

  • Jung, Sung-Min;Park, Jeong-Bae
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2017
  • In a pressurized fuel supply system of aircraft, a flow passage opening device is required to keep fuel continuously transferred from one tank to the other. The device utilizes balancing weights in order to follow up an acceleration at special conditions such as negative g. It is very difficult to test the device in a real high-speed and high-altitude test since severe test conditions and expensive supports are needed. Therefore, this paper deals with performance analysis of a flow passage opening device through low speed aircraft captive flight tests (CFT) including roll and negative-g maneuvers. It is shown that balancing weights in the device can open the passage in accordance with fuel position.

Development of Autonomous Aerial Target System Applying the Modular Platform (모듈형 플랫폼을 적용한 자율비행 무인표적기 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Taewook
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2022
  • A modular platform development technique was proposed to minimize development cost and development period by utilizing the already developed unmanned Aerial target AVT, which has been operated and verified for many years. New Mission Profile was designed and structural analysis was performed through finite element analysis (FEA) by analyzing mission requirements for visual short-range, non-visible mid-range, and long-range targets. The targets are used for guided missile anti-aircraft training. In addition, avionics systems including flight control computers for autonomous flights were developed to verify their conformance by performing launcher take-off tests with rapid acceleration changes and autonomous flight tests at a maximum speed of 300km per hour.

A Study on the effect of the academic performance on flight aptitude (학생조종사의 학업성취도가 비행적성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Yo-Sup
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • Since the success of the first flight, vast advancements have been made to the aircrafts with recent developments incorporating highly complex mechanisms, placing greater emphasis on the competence of the pilot. Studies are currently being undertaken to effectively source the trainee pilots with the most ideal level of aptitude for aviation with an aim to optimise the selection process with focus on economy and time, while research into identifying the optimal human characteristics for aviation is being done. As part of the selection process, number of tests is arranged with focus on the individual competence, suitability for flight, health status, aptitude and intelligence with the results of the tests used as reference materials during the selection procedure. This study has investigated the effect the academic competence has on the aptitude for aviation amongst many other abilities of human beings and the findings show that higher levels of aptitude have been demonstrated by the students who have displayed academic excellence across all the courses with statistics pointing to a positive correlation between the two subjects. This supports the theory that students who are academically superior have higher probability of being found to possess greater level of flight aptitude. The outcome of the study iterates the fact that academic competence of the students should not be regarded lightly in the selection process. Based on the current study, it is believed that a research into determining the relationship between the SAT results, average yearly grade and flight aptitude will help identify the key factors in possessing high level of flight aptitude with greater certainty.

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Comparison Study on Take-Off and Landing Flight Test Using Ground Observation and DGPS Method (지상관측법 및 DGPS 기법을 활용한 이/착륙 성능 비행시험 비교)

  • Lee, Sang-Jong;Chang, Jae-Won;Jeon, Byoung-Ho;Seong, Kiej-Jeong;Yeom, Chan-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.9
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    • pp.931-938
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    • 2009
  • The flight test is last means of compliance to satisfy airworthiness standards and important to evaluate the performance and safety of the developed aircraft. The flight test technologies are obtained from great numbers of experiences and know-hows and protected. In addition, flight test should be conducted efficiently since its various test conditions and items. Therefore, it is requisite to secure efficient flight test methods. This paper discusses the flight test methods for take-off and landing performance and two kinds of techniques are proposed. By performing real flight tests, they are compared with each other and analyzed through the flight analysis.

Design and Development of SNU MAV using Experimental Studies (실험적 연구를 통한 SNU 초소형 비행체 설계 및 개발)

  • 이영빈;김종암;김규홍;김우례
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.11
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2006
  • The SNU MAV has been designed through studies on highly efficient aerodynamic shape and propulsion system. The configuration of the vehicle was determined from conventional empirical equations, iterative wind tunnel tests and flight tests. The propeller shape was optimized with the various thrust tests and RSM(Response Surface Method) to obtain the higher efficient propulsion system. It was certified that the MAV could fly for over 17 minutes with a 210mAh battery. In addition, it showed good flight characteristics in both stability and controllability.

Hypersonic Aero-Heating Ground-Test Simulation Technique

  • Li, Ruiqu;Yao, Dapeng;Sha, Xinguo;Gong, Jian
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.50-53
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    • 2015
  • It would encounter some complicated flow fields, such as transition, separation, reattachment and disturbances, in the hypersonic flight. Thus, it is difficult to theoretically analyze the hypersonic aerothermodynamics effects, so that the ground-test simulation is thought of as one of the most important methods to improve the understanding level of the hypersonic aerothermodynamics. However, the aero-heating tests could not simulate all aerodynamics and geometry parameters in the real flight due to the differences between the experimental environments supplied by the ground facilities and the flight, so that the feasible technique for the ground-test simulation of the hypersonic aerothermodynamics effects is required to be advanced. The key parameters that are especially required to simulate for aero-heating tests are analyzed and one detailed approach is suggested to perform the experimental investigation on the hypersonic aero-heating effects in the ground facilities in this paper, and the tests are performed in the FD-20 gun tunnel of CAAA (China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics) to give out the data which could be used to confirm the equation from the theoretical analysis.