Division for Aeroplanes and Helicopters

The aim of the Division is operation/maintenance-dedicated ground and flight tests of aircraft and aeronautical systems.

Essential lines of research

• Flight tests of aircraft.
• Ground tests of aircraft airframes: structures and systems thereof.
• Tests of AFIT-designed constructions.
• Special tests (incl. those ordered by the Air Accident Investigation Board) and simulation-based ones.
• Development of training and simulation systems.
• Development of flight-data recording systems.
• Engineering support of operational/maintenance practice.
• Certification (state) tests of aeronautical systems introduced into service with military aviation.
• Complex flight tests of aircraft.
• Design and development of measuring/recording systems for ground and flight tests.
• Testing/monitoring of aircraft power plants' health/maintenance status to increase reliability of operated fleet.
• Assessment of aircraft behavior under extreme flight conditions to determine preventive-treatment and emergency-applicable procedures.
• Design, development and testing of systems intended to give training in fighting aerial targets; UAVs used to fill this role included.
• Development and testing of unmanned air-surveillance systems.
• Simulation-based testing work with AFIT's own models of aircraft flight dynamics employed (ones generated using parameters recorded in the course of flight tests).
• Airborne inputs-processing systems.
• Airborne and ground-based systems to transmit/display flight parameters.
• Airborne and ground-based systems to transmit/display flight parameters.
• Expert examination of airframe systems and operation-dedicated media.

Environmental and mechanical tests of assemblies/subassemblies of military aeronautical systems, conducted in the accredited Laboratory for Mechanical & Climatic Hazards.

Power-driven aerial target demonstrator	Flight Data Recording & Decoding System	Helicopters Flight Tests