| Download | - View final version: Drone impact damage assessment on a legacy transport aircraft structure: empennage testing (PDF, 5.2 MiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/40002736 |
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| Author | Search for: Dadouche, Azzedine1; Search for: Galeote, Brian1; Search for: Breithaupt, Timothy1; Search for: Greer, Allan1; Search for: Gould, Ron1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. Aerospace
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| Format | Text, Technical Report |
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| Physical description | 54 p. |
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| Abstract | The Gas Turbine Laboratory of NRC’s Aerospace Research Centre has an extensive experience in impact testing on aircraft structures, windshields as well as on engines (bird ingestion). A number of pneumatic guns with various sizes have been developed to perform such tests depending on the requirements.
Over the last two years and in collaboration with Transport Canada and Defence Research and Development Canada, the National Research Council Canada has developed a 17” bore cannon and completed two series of drone impact tests. The first series of impact tests was on aluminum plates [1] whereas, the second was on windshield and wing leading edge of a typical AWM 525 (Part 25) aircraft [2].
This is a follow-up project with the objective to perform a series of experiments simulating impacts between a representative quadcopter drone and the empennage of a transport category aircraft operating at typical cruising speed under 3,048 m (10,000 feet).
Test articles (empennage segments) were provided to NRC by the Emergency Response Services of the Ottawa International Airport Authority having been removed by NRC from one of their training aircrafts. This legacy aircraft served as a commercial passenger transporter until 1999 before being converted into a freighter. The plane was withdrawn from use in 2003 after 27 years of service.
There are several configurations of the empennage for transport category aircrafts with the most popular are conventional, cruciform and T-tail shapes. Having the location of the horizontal stabilizer and the wing on different planes, puts both parts at the same risk level of colliding with a bird or a drone. Figure 1 presents pictures of aircrafts from various airframe manufacturers with distinct empennage configurations. |
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| Publication date | 2021-01-18 |
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| Publisher | National Research Council of Canada. Aerospace |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | No |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | eeb28dd7-3bd1-4992-980a-413ba33600d6 |
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| Record created | 2022-01-28 |
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| Record modified | 2022-05-19 |
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