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Aircraft
and Aerospace
Wing
and Bomb Bay Launched UAV
Press
Release (.pdf)
The
AT-3 air lauched autonomous vehicle is designed to deploy from the
wing or fuselage bay of the P-3 Orion and successor Maritime Multimssion
aircraft, drop up to 10 sonobuoys or conduct surveillance, patrol
or communication relay missions for up to 59 hours and recover as
far as 4000 miles from launch. Gross launch weight is 411 pounds,
with up to 200 lb of payload.
Hovering Rocket Vehicle
Acuity
is participating in the NASA Centennial Challenge / 2007 X Prize
Cup Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander competition. The goal of the contest
is development of a low cost rocket propulsion and control system
with the delta-V required for transfer between low lunar orbit and
the moon's surface. Entrants compete annually for $2 million in
prize money. X
Prize Cup 2008
High
Speed VTOL Aircraft
The
principle of Acuity's VTOL aircraft design enables takeoff, hover,
and landing like a helicopter, but with superior manueverability.
Top speed is limited only by fixed-wing critical Mach number, enabling
forward flight at speeds to 600+ knots.
Concept
Model in Flight Simulation
CFD
Analysis of Rotor Jet Velocity
Development
of a 4-bladed cycloidal propulsion rotor jet from startup to steady
state was simulated at Acuity using NASA's Overflow-D CFD package
for viscous time-varying flow.
Prototype
Rotor in Testing
Results
from the CFD runs were used to control the blade angle profiles
in real time on the rotor running at 1100 rpm.
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