Single Lever Power Control for General Aviation and

Single Lever Power Control for General Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft Small Business Innovation Research Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation Manassas, Virginia INNOVATION Pilot or Autopilot controls General Aviation or Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) propulsion system via a Single Lever or a Single Power Command using a FADEC (Full-Authority Digital Engine Control) with optimal propeller/engine control Current Photo of product ACCOMPLISHMENTS u Developed first FADEC with full-digital Single Lever Power Control (SLPC) for General Aviation (GA) aircraft with optimal propeller/engine control u Developed and flight-tested the SLPC-FADEC system in GA aircraft - showed over 20% fuel consumption Aurora’s Chiron aircraft with full-digital improvement Single Lever Power Control u Tested FADEC system with UAV engine in test cell to 68, 000 ft altitude GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS u FADEC-controlled engine propels the Perseus B highaltitude UAV to 60, 000 ft altitude u Currently being used in NASA’s AGATE (Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment) for integrated COMMERCIALIZATION flight tests with all-digital cockpit technology components u Joint ventures with Athena Technologies combines SLPC u Potentially used in NASA’s ERAST (Environmental with advanced flight controls and FTC (Fault-tolerant Research and Atmospheric Science Technology) UAV Control) algorithms program u FADEC-controlled engines operated in excess of 500 hours in test cells and in flight u Ideal propulsion control unit for General Aviation naturally aspirated and turbocharged singles, twins, turboprops and other transportation propulsion systems Glenn Research Center General Aviation 3 -031 1994 Phase II, NAS 3 -27814, 2/99 NASA Contact - Donald Simon Company Contact - Benjamin Russ