22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-6.4.3

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CIVILIAN FLY BY WIRE FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM

E. Kleemann, D. Dey, R. Recksiek
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace,Germany

Keywords: fly-by-wire, bmbf, jar 25

Within a national research and development program funded by the german ministry of education and research (BMBF) new fly by wire flight control system has been developed and is in the process of certification according to JAR 25. Technology readiness was demonstrated for those technologies which are potential candidates for a new aircraft. New equipment was developed and demonstrated in several flights of the ATD (Aerospace Technologies Demonstrator) aircraft. The following new technologies have been demonstrated: cabinets for the computing system, smart actuator, electromechanical actuator, full fly by wire rudder and a hydraulic power package. For the first time the modular avionic approach was applied to a flight control system. As a result of this program each technology which is now approved by flight can be selected within future systems as building blocks and composed to systems (not only flight control) adequate for any aircraft type.

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