Handling Qualities Specification Requirements for Maritime Rotorcraft, Vertical Takeoff/Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Heavy Lift Helicopters Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.2 Topic No.: N05-091 Topic Title: Handling Qualities Specification Requirements for Maritime Rotorcraft, Vertical Takeoff/Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Heavy Lift Helicopters Proposal No.: N052-091-0354 Firm: Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. 1330 Charleston Rd Mountain View, California 94043 Contact: Chengjian He Phone: (650) 968-1464 Web Site: www.flightlab.com Abstract: ART proposes to develop a technical basis for augmenting the current ADS-33E-PRF to accommodate the needs of improving its applicability to shipboard rotorcraft and heavy lift helicopter flying qualities specifications. The research effort will emphasize the new criteria development, the evaluation methodology formulation, and the analytical simulation toolkit integration. The detailed Phase I objectives are to (1) accomplish a thorough review of the current ADS-33E-PRF and conduct a comprehensive investigation of existing flight test and simulation data to identify areas which need improvement; (2) investigate and evaluate land-and sea-based rotorcraft operational differences and propose new specification criteria for shipboard rotorcraft operations; (3) develop methods for simulation and/or flight test evaluation of the new specification criteria; (4) prototype a new handling qualities evaluation toolkit for shipboard rotorcraft operations that is compatible with industry standard simulation programs, such as FLIGHTLAB or MATLAB/Simulink; and (5) prototype the new toolkit by integrating it with FLIGHTLAB to demonstrate the functionality. Benefits: The Aircraft Design Standard is an indispensable requirement for new aircraft development, manufacture, and test and evaluation. The new handling qualities evaluation and simulation tool developed through this SBIR will be of great value to all rotorcraft manufacturers, research institutes, universities, government agencies, and the military. The handling qualities analysis tool that will be developed can be applied throughout the entire rotorcraft life cycle. Return