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Safety Planning for C-17A Airdrop Safety Planning for C-17A Airdrop

TestingTesting24 Sep 0924 Sep 09

Air Force Flight Test CenterAir Force Flight Test Center

I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.AFFTC-PA No. 10150

War-Winning Capabilities … On Time, On Cost

Mark “SCIPR” Jones Jr, Maj

418th Flight Test Squadron

661-275-7594

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Overview

• Background: NASA Orion and Ares airdrop tests

• Build-up and Recent Results

• Modeling and Simulation for Safety Planning

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Background

Background

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Background

Background

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Build-up and Recent Results

Test Point Objective ResultsExtraction line cut test Demonstrate cutting procedure SuccessfulParachute tow test #1 Demonstrate Vectran

extraction line loadsSuccessful

Airdrop #1, 40K lb JDTV Build-up for parachute SuccessfulAirdrop #2, 60K lb JDTV Build-up for parachute and

aircraft (instrumented ramp)Extraction anomaly

Test tub Demonstrate three parachute cluster design deployment

Successful

Parachute tow test #2 Demonstrate modified rigging procedure (anomaly corrected)

Successful

Airdrop #3, 72K lb JDTV Parachute design load limit (DLL)

DLL validatedFQ, loads data for build-up

Airdrop #4, 78K lb JDTV Build-up for aircraft TBDAirdrop #5, 85K Build-up for aircraft TBDAirdrop #6, 90K Demonstrate load safety

marginTBD

M&S for Safety Planning

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M&S for Safety Planning

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Questions?