Technology Transfer Contact:

Mr. Arthur Ragosta

Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate

NASA Ames Research Center, MS 219-1

MS 219-1

Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

650-604-5558 Fax: 650-604-5564

Email: ragosta@merlin.arc.nasa.gov

The Aeroflightdynamics Directorate mission is to plan, develop, manage, and execute Army Aviation research and technology development programs, provide engineering support to Army Aviation systems development, and transfer Army developed technology to the public sector.

Areas of Expertise

• Rotorcraft aeromechanics
• Handling qualities
• Man-machine integration
• Simulation
• Automatic target recognition
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Computer modeling and simulation
• Computer-aided design
• Computer-aided engineering
• Expert systems
• Handwriting and speech recognition
• Human factors engineering
• Laser devices
• Leading-edge scientific instruments
• Measurement techniques
• Multi-system interaction
• Parallel computer architectures
• Real time processing
• Structural dynamics
• Systems engineering

The crew station research and development facility (CSRDF) is a full mission simulator capable of supporting a wide variety of studies to improve pilot-vehicle system performance. This simulator is centered around a pair of reconfigurable, fixed-base, all-digital "glass" cockpits with advanced visual imagery displayed on a fiber-optic wide-field-of-view helmet-mounted display.

Flight research aircraft includes an XV-15 tilt-rotor, 2 UH-60 Blackhawks, and an AH-1 Cobra.

A 7x10 foot wind tunnel is used for basic subsonic aeromechanics research. Support equipment includes basic instrumentation and data acquisition systems as well as a laser flow visualization system.

Through a NASA/Army agreement the Aeroflight-dynamics Directorate has direct access to NASA Ames facilities including NASA's Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) for experimental aerodynamics, the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulator (NAS) for computational fluid dynamics research, and the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) for piloted simulation investigations.

Last Updated 04/06/2008