International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) of the Royal Australian Air
Force (RAAF) is the only agency in Australia that performs the full spectrum of
military flight testing and is the new custodian of the instrumented weapons range at
Woomera. Receiving early attention will be the upgrade and integration of ARDU's
telemetry systems with the meteorological and tracking data acquisition capabilities at
Woomera to minimize overhead and data turnaround time.
To achieve these goals, maximum modularity, extensibility, and product
interoperability is being sought in the proposed architecture of all the systems that will
need to cooperate on the forecast test programmes. These goals are also driven by the
need to be responsive to a wide variety of tasks which presently include structural
flight testing of fighter and training aircraft, weapons systems performance evaluation
on a variety of combatant aircraft, and a host of other tasks associated with all fixed
and rotary wing aircraft in the Army and Air Force inventory.
Of all these tasks however, ARDU sees that responsiveness to future testing of
F-111Cs fitted with unique Digital Flight Control Systems along with USAF standard
F-111Gs may place the most significant demands on data handling —particularly in
regard to providing an avionics bus diagnostic capability when performing
Operational Flight Programme (OFP) changes to the mission computers.
With the timely assistance and advice of Loral Test & Information Systems, who has
long-term experience in supporting USAF F-111 test programmes, ARDU is confident
of making wise design decisions that will provide the desired flexibility and, at the
same time, minimize life-cycle costs by ensuring compliance with the appropriate
telemetry and open systems standards. As well, via cooperative agreements with the
USAF, the potential exists to acquire proven software products without needing to
fund the development costs already absorbed by the USAF.
This paper presents ARDU's perception of future needs, a view by LTIS of how best
to meet those needs, and, based on ARDU data, a view of how LTIS' proposal will
satisfy the requirement to provide maximum extensibility with minimum life-cycle
costs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608556 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Crouch, Viv, Goldstein, Anna |
| Contributors | RAAF Base, Loral Test & Information Systems |
| 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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