USA flag logo/image

An Official Website of the United States Government

Design and Preliminary Evaluation of the r-Gamma Display Concept

Award Information

Agency:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
67279 		Program Year/Program:
2004 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
034252 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
NTI, Inc.
927 Fred Johnston Drive Fairborn, OH -
View profile »
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2004
Title: Design and Preliminary Evaluation of the r-Gamma Display Concept
Agency: NASA
Contract: NNL04AB12P
Award Amount: $69,387.00
 

Abstract:

The objective of this proposed Phase I SBIR effort is to develop and assess the feasibility of an innovative new flight instrument proposed to replace the traditional Turn Coordinator (or Turn-and-Slip Indicator) currently found in most general aviation (GA) aircraft. The primary innovation is the inclusion of climb-dive information and gyroscopic heading, in addition to the turn-rate information now available, in one low-cost display. In essence, this new ?r-Gamma? display concept will ?fuse? flight information on one display that the pilot must now gather and correlate from among five separate indicators whenever the aircraft experiences loss of the Attitude Indicator (AI) and the Heading Indicator (HI) due to vacuum system or gauge failure. The innovative technology that makes this concept feasible and affordable, with a projected cost similar to that of today?s Turn Coordinator, is derived from a technique called ?Air-Data Tracking,? recently developed and flight tested by our firm under an SBIR contract that involved tracking the flightpath of a small USAF sensor vehicle. We firmly believe this concept has the potential to improve significantly the safety of emergency ?partial-panel? flight operations in GA aircraft.

Principal Investigator:

Robert L. Shaw
Principal Investigator
9372534110
fciassoc@aol.com

Business Contact:

Beth A. Barker
Corporate Secretary
9372534110
bbarker307@aol.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

NTI, Inc.
5200 Springfield Pike, Suite 119 Dayton, OH 45431

EIN/Tax ID: 311191290
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No