International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO) was chartered by the Secretary of the Air
Force in December 1987. The mission of the AFSEO is to provide the United States Air
Force increased combat capability through central management of the aircraft-stores
certification process and provide in-house engineering and operations research
capabilities. Additionally, the AFSEO is required to ensure the future viability of the
aircraft-stores organic in-house capability with the insertion of evolving technologies.
To accomplish this mission, the AFSEO employs all phases of the test process; from
Digital Model and Simulation (DMS) to Open Air Range (OAR) flight tests. The AFSEO
desires to prepare for the future DoD environment, and minimize the cost of developing
its products that require advanced sensors and telemetry capability. For a number of
years, a mainstay in the process has been instrumented aircraft. These aircraft were
specially instrumented to support the mission of AFSEO. Similarly, stores were
instrumented to obtain environmental data such as loads and vibration.
With the rising cost of instrumentation and the national DoD trend to reduce the cost of
development and maintenance of instrumentation, a new method will need to be found.
Several advanced concepts in ground and airborne instrumentation at Eglin AFB are
needed to support the mission of the AFSEO. These include a new generation of
telemetry devices, sensors, and data acquisition components to provide rapid and cost
effective instrumentation of test aircraft, stores, and suspension equipment. The new
generation telemetry will provide integrated circuitry with “peel and stick” subminiature
telemetry sensors. These telemetry sensors will provide flutter and structural loads data
for aircraft-stores combinations. In conjunction with the telemetry sensors, advanced
aircraft platform instrumentation will be needed to match precision flight mechanics to
the spatial telemetry measurements for stress, strain, and dynamic activity of stores.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607291 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Dyess, William W. Jr, Shirley, Benjamin M., Robinson, Wiley J. |
| Contributors | Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office, TYBRIN CORPORATION |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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