![]() This is the first tournament of many. Several #ROTC Detachments as well as RAF and RAAF teams are standing by, eager to fight the cadets. The Air Combat Club, chartered only last year, is USAFA's newest cadet club and now counts more than 500 active members. The competition team was selected after weeks of intra-club "Fight Nights" to find the Top Guns to face Navy. ![]() AF sinks Navy, 26-10 in the best of 36 rounds. winner must survive at least 5 sec after the killĪfter Air Force jumped out to an early 14-2 lead, the midshipmen started taking their Hornets one-circle at the merge and evened the tally a bit, though the adjustment proved too little, too late. Final score. Rules of Engagement (USAFA flying F-16s v USNA flying F-18s): Last night Cadets from the United States Air Force Academy Air Combat Club defeated the Midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy in the first-ever, interservice DCS Topgun Tournament, 26-10. #usafa #aeronautics #engineering #design #STEM #learningbydoing #hiring Quick-look at the handling-qualities ratings showed very promising results for L1. The next step will be flying the L1 adaptive control on USAFA's unstable ICE aircraft.Ĭadets Dever, Leicht, and Luna briefed the results to United States Air Force and United States Space Force senior leaders at Corona last week. This is an excellent example of how the Cadets at #USAFA are helping to #acceleratechange.Ĭongratulations to Brian Holm-Hansen, Ryan Osteroos, Paul Leitch, Dain Bornhofen, Paul Blue, Caden Blue, Steven Brandt and everyone else on the SAFE Team. The LM/USAFA team flew the Lockheed Aero-developed L1 control law on #USAFA's Stryker 200 aircraft. Critical to the flight demonstration was code written by C1C Luna that rehosted adaptive and baseline control laws and permitted immediate reversion to a known configuration. with L1 control, the airplane can "teach itself" how to fly!Ĭontrol law development is one of the most complex, expensive, and time-consuming aspects of aircraft development-particularly with highly augmented and inherently unstable modern designs. Adopting a 'certified' L1 controller could radically change the flight control development process and permit more rapid fielding of new aircraft. Adaptive control will also be able to leverage advances in AI, ML, and Parameter ID for next-generation designs and digital twins of existing aircraft. ![]() In partnership with Lockheed Martin, the Office of Naval Research, and the United States Air Force Academy's UAS Research Team, the in-flight demonstration of SAFE, an L1 Adaptive Control technique, is the culmination of years of research and development. Adoption of L1 control techniques could significantly reduce cost and schedule in aircraft development. Cadets Andrew Dever (Aero Major, USAFA Aerobatics Team), Ben Leicht (Aero/Physics Double Major), and Noah Luna (Aero/Computer Science Double Major) accomplished the first successful flying demonstration of the Smart Adaptive Flight control Environment (SAFE) program.
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