Research and Development of Control Actuation Systems for Aircraft. Volume II. The Evaluation of a Force Sharing and an Active-On-Line Fly-By-Wire Actuation System

摘要

This report describes the test evaluation of two Fly-By-Wire development demonstrators submitted to the Air Force for evaluation. The demonstrators were submitted to the Air Force under contract by Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York. One demonstrator was a force sharing mechanization constructed for Grumman Aircraft by Bertea Corporation of Irvine, California. The other demonstrator was an active-on-line mechanization constructed for Grumman Aerospace Corporation by National Waterlift Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan. For the evaluation, the demonstrators were set up with specific performance characteristics which had been used for previous tests performed on other FBW mechanizations. Except where special testing was warranted to investigate potentially unique characteristics of a particular system, the same test procedures were used for both demonstration systems. The report describes the systems evaluated, the test procedures and presents the test results obtained. (Author)