A Novel Approach for Missing Combat Support Aircraft Search Acceleration using VTOL UAS

Abstract

Verbatim from Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons. Not paraphrased, not summarized.

In this paper, an approach to accelerate search operations for a missing combat support aircraft using a portable waterproof autonomous vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial system called “flying locator beacon” is described. The latter is connected with both flight data and cockpit voice recorders with a parallel bus and may be deployed from the empennage during extreme emergency scenarios, which is detected when few flight parameters are overrun leading to an air crash stimulating behavior. Landing of the flying locator beacon strictly takes place on global latitude and longitude coordinates only of integer values enabling significant minimization of search time and cost.

Authors

• Ba Zuhair, Mohammed Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Yousef, Wisam Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Samara, Issam Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Varsegov, Vladislav Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Keywords

• UAV
• FDR
• CVR
• aircraft crash
• aircraft search
• search and rescue
• Aeronautical Vehicles
• Aviation Safety and Security
• Management and Operations