A recent history of the evolution of Australia's aerodynamics store separation capability: through Indigenous and international programs
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2012
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Drobik, J.
Tutty, M.G.
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Grant, I.
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28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, 2012 / Grant, I. (ed./s), vol.2, pp.1368-1376
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28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (23 Sep 2012 - 28 Sep 2012 : Brisbane, Australia)
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For around three decades, the Royal Australian Air Force has used variants of the F/A-18 Hor-net, and now the Super Hornet, aircraft as its primary fighter and weapons-delivery platforms. For stores clearance on these aircraft, Australia has used an approach based on the methodology of MIL-HDBK-1763. This methodology has traditionally relied on the use of prior analogous stores results, along with wind-tunnel and flight testing. As described in this paper, Australia has worked on improving computational fluid dynamics, wind-tunnel testing, and flight testing for stores separation over the past three decades. Australia has benefited from participating in, and contributing to, international efforts to validate the use of CFD and modelling and simulation in the stores clearance process and these advances have led to more cost-effective clearances. The paper concludes that Australia’s future role in stores clearance will be through international sharing of clearance programs with allies and this can assist in reducing overall costs.
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Copyright 2012 by the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences - ICAS