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The philosophy adopted for the flight testing of the Panavia Tornado avionics system in hack aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

P. H. Morgan
P. H. Morgan*
Affiliation:
Formerly with EASAMS Limited, now a consultant with Theta Analysis and Systems Limited, Camberley
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Extract

The flight test engineer constantly strives to provide solutions to the problems of testing, developing and proving the progressively more complex and accurate navigation and attack systems of modern military aircraft. The biggest such challenge in Europe for some time was probably the flight trials programme on the swing-wing Tornado aircraft which has a digitally based, self contained, al-lweather NAV/ATTACK avionics system. This paper covers the philosophy and techniques adopted for the flight testing and subsequent analysis of major elements of this system.

Type
The role of aircraft in an agricultural strategy for the year 2000
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 84 , Issue 833 , June 1980 , pp. 147 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1980 

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