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NASA researchers in gold control room during an F-15 HiDEC flight | ||
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Photo Number: | EC93-42219-FR2 | |
Photo Date: | October 6, 1993 | |
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Formats: | 558x480 JPEG Image (95 KBytes) 1190x1024 JPEG Image (605 KBytes) 3030x2606 JPEG Image (8,549 KBytes) |
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Description: |
NASA researchers monitor equipment in the mission control Gold room at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, during a flight of an F-15 Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control (HIDEC) research aircraft. The system was developed on the F-15 to investigate and demonstrate methods of obtaining optimum aircraft performance.
The major elements of HIDEC were a Digital Electronic Flight Control System (DEFCS), a Digital Electronic Engine Control (DEEC), an on-board general purpose computer, and an integrated architecture to allow all components to "talk to each other." Unlike standard F-15s, which have a mechanical and analog electronic flight control system, the HIDEC F-15 also had a dual-channel, fail-safe digital flight control system programmed in Pascal. It was linked to the Military Standard 1553B and a H009 data bus which tied all the other electronic systems together. |
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Keywords: | F-15; HIDEC; Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control; DEEC; Digital Electronic Engine Control; DEFCS; Digital Electronic Flight Control System |
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