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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 98 - Williamsburg - October 2006
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Research Institutions, Industry and University Reports 4.2.2 Research Institutes and Companies 4.2.2.3 Calspan
Title	Calspan
Presenter	Eric Ohmit
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Abstract	Four recent projects at Calspan are discussed. The first is the Automatic Air Refueling project which utilized the Learjet (#2) variable stability aircraft as an unmanned air vehicle surrogate. This project flew from the Niagara Falls, NY airport while a KC-135 tanker from the New York Air National Guard served as the tanker test bed. Flight test program aspects were discussed and several photos and videos were shown of the Learjet while in both the air refueling contact position as well as on the KC-135 tanker’s wing (observation position). The second project discussed was the upcoming AFRL Sense and Avoid project. This project also uses the Learjet as a surrogate UAV and the purpose of the flight test program is to evaluate the ability of the onboard sensors to allow unmanned vehicles to share the National Airspace System safely with manned aircraft. This project will begin flight test at Niagara Falls, NY during October 2006. The third update of Calspan flight activities is a status update of the Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) NF-16D. After a busy and successful year at Edwards AFB, the aircraft was recently flown to Hill AFB where it will undergo about nine months of USAF Depot maintenance which will extend its service life for at least another 15 years. The last project discussed is an instrumentation and parameter identification project of the Oregon Iron Works, Inc. unmanned SeaScout seaplane. Calspan’s role was to provide a small, inexpensive instrumentation and data recording package as well as reduction of the data to provide an aircraft model data.