21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-1.8.2

RESULTS OF A JOINT US/SWEDISH AUTO GROUND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM PROGRAM

Swihart D. E., Barfield A. F., Brannstrom B.*, Cawood M.**, Turner R.**, Lovgren J.***
Wright Patterson AFB, USA; *FMV, Sweden; **Lockheed Martin, USA; ***SAAB AB, Sweden

Keywords: joint us/swedish, auto ground collision avoidance system

This paper documents the results of the development of an Automatic Ground Collision A voidance System (Auto GCAS) for a fighter aircraft. This development effort is a joint United States and Sweden program. Auto GCAS technology is being considered for application on the F-16 and JAS39 aircraft pictured in Figure 1. The United States part of the team consists of Advanced Fighter Technology IntegrationlF-16 or AFTIIF-16 personnel. This includes members from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, NASA Dryden, and Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems in Ft. Worth. The Swedish part of the team consists of personnel from Forsvarets Materielverk in Stockholm and Saab in Linkoping.

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