Fly-by-light flight control system development for transport aircraft

Abstract

The Fly-By-Light Advanced System Hardware (FLASH) program is developing and demonstrating dual use fly-by-light (FBL) hardware for flight control systems On military and commercial aircraft. Under the transport aircraft portion of this program, we and our industry team-mates are demonstrating two representative fly-by-light systems. These fly-by-light demonstrations include a ground demonstration of a partial primary flight control system and a flight demonstration of-an aileron trim control system. This paper describes these and discusses the dual use fly-by-light hardware developed for transport aircraft as well as the associated FLASH program demonstrations.