Engineering:F-8 digital fly-by-wire project

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Short description: Experimental fly-by-wire research project
Experimental F-8 DFBW aircraft in flight, photographed in 1973
Electronics bay of the F-8 DFBW experimental aircraft. An Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY interface is visible in the gun bay.

The F-8 Digital-Fly-By-Wire (DFBW) project was an experimental digital fly-by-wire system developed by NASA at Armstrong Flight Research Center in the 1970s.[1] It was the first digital fly-by-wire fixed-wing aircraft without a mechanical backup.[2]

Based on a modified U.S. Navy Vought F-8C Crusader aircraft, it used a Apollo Guidance Computer as its control system.[3][4][5] The aircraft had the tail number NASA 802.[3]

The project was supported by Neil Armstrong, who advocated for the aircraft to be transferred to NASA.[3]

The system originally had an analog fly-by-wire backup, but this never needed to be used.[2][3]

The system's first completely digitally controlled flight was made on 25 May 1972, piloted by Gary E. Krier.[6]

The digital system was later upgraded to a triple-redundant digital system.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Where Are They Now: F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire - NASA" (in en-US). https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/where-are-they-now-f-8-digital-fly-by-wire/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Fly-by-wire for combat aircraft", Flight International: p. 353, 23 August 1973, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%202228.html 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Aircraft". 2021. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/120282main_fs-024-dfrc.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Elliott, J. (October 1977). "NASA's advanced control law program for the F-8 digital fly-by-wire aircraft". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 22 (5): 753–757. doi:10.1109/TAC.1977.1101608. ISSN 1558-2523. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1101608. 
  5. ↑ Jarvis, C. R. (1975-02-01). "An overview of NASA's digital fly-by-wire technology development program" (in en). Description and Flight Test Results of the NASA F-8 Digital Fly-by-Wire Control System. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19750010174/downloads/19750010174.pdf. 
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100216070159/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/F8/index.html




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