A good (now old?) story about MAGIC CARPET development....
Project Magic Carpet A Breakthrough in Carrier Aircraft Landing
Mr. John Kinzer, Program Officer, Air - Vehicle Technology, Office of Naval Research; innovate Vol. 10 |
Spring 2013
"...MAGIC CARPET technology development is continuing. Flight control augmentation for lineup is being developed and tested in the flight simulator, and HUD displays are being refined. Planning is underway to conduct testing of the control laws and displays in both the F/A–18E/F and the F-35C...."
http://www.onr.navy.mil/Science-Tech...t13-Vol10.ashx
Some more SALTY woids....
Shipboard Automated Landing Technology Innovation Program
John Kinzer Aircraft Technology Program Officer, ONR 351, 2 November
2011
[quote]"
Shipboard Automated Landing Technology Innovation (SALTI) :-)
VISION
All sea based naval aircraft, manned and unmanned, fixed wing and rotary wing, will utilize optimally automated ship launch and recovery to the operating limits of the ship / aircraft system...
...
• Flight training
- reduction in training time / cost (decrease in ship landing initial training, qualification, and currency requirements)
- indirect benefits may include reduced environmental impact and public complaints due to FCLPs (noise), cost of equipping, maintaining, and manning outlaying landing fields, etc.
&
SALTI Technical Objectives
• Precise automated approach and glideslope control
- Reduced susceptibility to wind gusts and turbulence
- Accommodation of high sea states, higher winds from all directions, degraded visual environment
- Precise, predictable touchdown: reduced scatter in sink rate, sideloads, touchdown spot, hook-to-ramp distance,
centerline deviations..."
http://www.defenseinnovationmarketpl...ing%20Tech.pdf (0.7Mb)
My fav 'MagiiCarpet' by SteppinFetchitWolof Video:
Magic F-18 Ride Uploaded on Jun 1,
2006