Damage Tolerance

Rockwell Collins’ Athena Technologies division has disclosed the results of a flight test this spring in which a subscale F/A-18 vehicle was recovered after the intentional separation of 60% of its right wing. The Automatic Supervisory Adaptive Control (ASAC) was not specifically programmed with the...

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