NORTHWEST UAV - Columbia Aviation...
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INTRODUCTIONS
• Jeff Ratcliffe NWUAV Chief Technical Officer
– Electrical Engineer
Semiconductors
– UAV Program Manager
• Heavy Fuel Engine
Programs
• Multiple Payload Integration
– Navy Nuclear Submarines
All views expressed are my own and not necessarily
representative of NWUAV.
AGENDA
• UAV’s and Their Role in Aviation
– Technological Maturity
– Market Uses
– Integration into the NAS
• Current State of the
Unmanned Marketplace
– Military
– Domestic
– International
• NWUAV’s Role in Helping Ensure Safe Airspace Integration
– NWUAV Background
– Military
– Civilian/NAS/FAA
UNMANNED SYSTEMS IN NAS
• Hobby Activity
• Professional Grade
– High Density
Populations
– Interaction with
Manned Platforms
• Setting Expectations for Professionalism
Unmanned Manufacturing, Engineering,
and Maintenance
– AS9100
– FAR 21 Compliance
NORTHWEST UAV
• Largest UAV propulsion system provider (1-100hp)
• Facility – 500 Engines/Month Capability
• AS9100 (Aerospace Certified)
• ~ 70 Employees
• 30,000 + Square Feet
• Wire Harness Shop
• Electrical Test Lab
• Turnkey Support from Design-to-Field Operations
• DCAA Audited
HIGH VOLUME PRODUCTION
• AS9100 Compliant
• Proprietary Configuration
Controls
• LEAN Manufacturing
Techniques
• Capacity to Produce More
than 500 Engine Modules
and Associated
Subsystems a Month
ENGINEERING SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering
Specialists in each aspect of unmanned
design
• SolidWorks® allows NWUAV’s engineers to
take a concept and develop a prototype,
evaluate and refine it as needed to produce
final production ready designs.
Electrical Engineering
Precision Circuit and Electrical Systems
• Altium Designer® provides a single unified solution for the entire design process. NWUAV uses the latest technologies to design and develop circuit and electrical systems with precision.
ENGINEERING SERVICES Continued
Aerospace Engineering
Experts in flight and propulsion dynamics
• HyperWorks® suite of analysis tools
predicts the dynamics of your system.
• Ellipse method of propeller design to get the
highest possible propeller efficiency at the
lowest possible acoustic detectability.
Physics
Experts in heavy fuel combustion dynamics
• With the latest combustion dynamics
software suites from Ricardo™ we
understand how to optimize your system for
operation on heavy fuels.
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
• Program Management for
Complex Systems
• Understanding the
Trade-Offs for Unmanned
Systems
ACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS TESTING
NWUAV utilizes a 1/24th Octave Real
Time Analyzer to visualize and record
sound energy in a sound controlled room.
Data provided by this system helps
determine where in the frequency
spectrum the highest levels of noise exist.
OTHER SERVICES
• RAPID PROTOTYPING &
MANUFACTURING
• Wire Harness Manufacturing
• Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
• CNC Machine Shop
• Metrology Services (CMM)
• Maintenance Repair Organization
• Dynamic Performance Testing
Facility
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
Modeling and Analysis
UNMANNED MARKET PLACE
• Military – Production – Steady
– R&D – Declining
• Commercial – 2 years ago
• “Small Investments in Small Operations” – Lack of clear regulations prohibit big plays and deter larger
end-use customers.
– No dominant players entering the field without clear risk picture
• Volume of Use Increasing ‘Under the Radar’
– Now
• Large Investments by Aggressive/Risk Tolerant Investors – Clear paths to operations for some uses.
– Expectations of paths to operations for novel uses.
• Exponential growth
UNMANNED MARKET PLACE Continued
• International
– Large Investments in Air Frames and Infrastructure
– Clear Path to Commercial Operations
– Booming Demand
– Expanding Operations
NWUAV’S ROLE IN HELPING ENSURE
SAFE AIRSPACE INTEGRATIONS
• Military
– Developed documentation for the safe operation and maintenance of the propulsion
systems to the STUAS and other programs
– Provides traceability of components throughout product lifecycle
– FAR based propulsion system testing
• Civilian Infrastructure Development
– Propulsion system testing facilities design
to be FAR compatible
– Professional Maintenance and Repair
Organization
– AS9100 compliance
• NAS
– A&P Mechanics for MRO
– Part 145 Repair Station Application, pending
– DER/DAR/ODAR Personnel Applications, prepared
AIRSPACE INTEGRATION
NW-44 FLIGHT TEST
• NWUAV has secured a Soar Oregon Grant
for Integration and Flight Tests
• First Flight Units for Launch
Client 2014
• Controlled Range Access at
Warm Springs UAS Test
Range