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Course detail: Aircraft Structures Flight Testing
Description
The course will provide the students with a foundation for understanding structures flight testing to the extent that they can plan and participate in structures flight trials of air vehicles of all kinds. One half will consist of academics, building knowledge of aircraft structures and how they behave. The second half will transition this knowledge into flight test planning and execution techniques used in gathering data to validate predictions and demonstrate flight safety. The instructor brings a wealth of structures flight test experience and has examples illuminating the course topics and providing lessons learned. The course complements those focusing more generally on aircraft structures topics such as materials, stress, loads and dynamics design, analysis and certification. It also fits nicely with the other flight test courses and reflects a similar approach in providing flight test fundamentals along with details of the core subject.
Learning Objectives
Who Should Attend?
This course would benefit those planning and conducting aircraft flight testing. Depending on the nature of a test program, structures will almost certainly have some bearing and so the fundamentals must be understood. Managers will understand the importance and safety implications of structures and how to build and execute a suitable flight test program. Designers and analysts will understand such tests that deliver vital data and so work more confidently with testers in formulating an effective and efficient test program. Testers will form a solid foundation for performing efficient and safe tests. Test pilots will better understand their role in collecting essential data in a safe manner. All these participants will better appreciate each other's roles.
Course Fees
Early registration fee: $2,595 if you register and pay by the early registration deadline (45 days prior to the first day of class).
Regular registration fee: $2,795 if you register and pay after the early registration deadline.
Course Materials
Course materials, including outlines, presentation copies, and supplementary materials, will be accessible through Canvas, KU's online learning system. Instructions to access Canvas will be provided upon completed registration. Students are required to bring a computer or other electronic device with PDF-viewing capabilities with them to class each day. If you require accommodation contact us at professionalprograms@ku.edu and we will work with you on an accessible solution.
U.S. Federal Employee Discount: This course is that you cannot register using our online system when requesting this available to U.S. federal employees at 10% off the registration fee. To receive the federal employee discount, you must enter the code FGVT116 during the checkout process. Please note that you must validate your eligibility to receive this discount by entering your U.S. government email address (ending in .gov or .mil) when creating your online registration profile. This discount is available for both the early registration and regular registration fees.
Canada Department of National Defence Discount
This course is available to Canada DND employees at 10% off the registration fee. Please contact the DND Procurement Authority (DAP 2-3) for details. Please note that you cannot register using our online system when requesting this discount. This discount is available for both the early registration and regular registration fees.
Certificate Track
This course is part of the Certificates of Specialization in Aircraft Structures and Flight Test and Aircraft Performance
Classroom hours / CEUs
35 classroom hours
3.5 CEUs
Course Accessibility
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to participate in University of Kansas educational offerings. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in our Aerospace Short Courses, please email jayhawkglobal@ku.edu or call 785-864-6779 at least three weeks before the first day of the event.
Please note: If you are attending an Aerospace Short Course onsite at your place of employment, please contact your company's training coordinator for accommodation requests.
Course Resources
AERO0700 Course Information and Outline (PDF Document)
The course will provide the students with a foundation for understanding structures flight testing to the extent that they can plan and participate in structures flight trials of air vehicles of all kinds. One half will consist of academics, building knowledge of aircraft structures and how they behave. The second half will transition this knowledge into flight test planning and execution techniques used in gathering data to validate predictions and demonstrate flight safety. The instructor brings a wealth of structures flight test experience and has examples illuminating the course topics and providing lessons learned. The course complements those focusing more generally on aircraft structures topics such as materials, stress, loads and dynamics design, analysis and certification. It also fits nicely with the other flight test courses and reflects a similar approach in providing flight test fundamentals along with details of the core subject.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the vital importance of structures in aircraft development and service, and how this drives structures ground and flight testing
- Develop a sound foundation of vocabulary and concepts essential for the study of aircraft structures, structural statics and structural dynamics.
- Understand the basics of flight mechanics, the fundamentals of aerodynamic forces, and the flight environment.
- Recognize the basics of structures flight testing to include test team organization, data management, test and safety planning, test integration, and data analysis.
- Describe structures data acquisition and analysis.
- Recognize likely applicable regulations and specifications bearing on structures test planning and conduct.
- Understand the theoretical fundamentals of materials, solid mechanics, structural dynamics, aeroelasticity, vibration and acoustics, and aeroservoelastic, as a foundation for application to modeling and analysis of complex aircraft structures supporting testing.
- Describe the basic steps in preparation, execution, and analysis of a loads and structural dynamics ground and flight test program while understanding the inherent limitations of the applied measurement techniques and test methodologies.
- Identify operational factors that will load aircraft structure to limits, also explaining limiting measures for flight safety and now these are verified through analysis.
- Appreciate potential failure modes and adverse interactions in order to identify these with confidence during structures ground and flight tests.
- Prepare test, test safety, and other planning documents for structures flight test programs and post-test reports.
Who Should Attend?
This course would benefit those planning and conducting aircraft flight testing. Depending on the nature of a test program, structures will almost certainly have some bearing and so the fundamentals must be understood. Managers will understand the importance and safety implications of structures and how to build and execute a suitable flight test program. Designers and analysts will understand such tests that deliver vital data and so work more confidently with testers in formulating an effective and efficient test program. Testers will form a solid foundation for performing efficient and safe tests. Test pilots will better understand their role in collecting essential data in a safe manner. All these participants will better appreciate each other's roles.
Course Fees
Early registration fee: $2,595 if you register and pay by the early registration deadline (45 days prior to the first day of class).
Regular registration fee: $2,795 if you register and pay after the early registration deadline.
Course Materials
Course materials, including outlines, presentation copies, and supplementary materials, will be accessible through Canvas, KU's online learning system. Instructions to access Canvas will be provided upon completed registration. Students are required to bring a computer or other electronic device with PDF-viewing capabilities with them to class each day. If you require accommodation contact us at professionalprograms@ku.edu and we will work with you on an accessible solution.
U.S. Federal Employee Discount: This course is that you cannot register using our online system when requesting this available to U.S. federal employees at 10% off the registration fee. To receive the federal employee discount, you must enter the code FGVT116 during the checkout process. Please note that you must validate your eligibility to receive this discount by entering your U.S. government email address (ending in .gov or .mil) when creating your online registration profile. This discount is available for both the early registration and regular registration fees.
Canada Department of National Defence Discount
This course is available to Canada DND employees at 10% off the registration fee. Please contact the DND Procurement Authority (DAP 2-3) for details. Please note that you cannot register using our online system when requesting this discount. This discount is available for both the early registration and regular registration fees.
Certificate Track
This course is part of the Certificates of Specialization in Aircraft Structures and Flight Test and Aircraft Performance
Classroom hours / CEUs
35 classroom hours
3.5 CEUs
Course Accessibility
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to participate in University of Kansas educational offerings. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in our Aerospace Short Courses, please email jayhawkglobal@ku.edu or call 785-864-6779 at least three weeks before the first day of the event.
Please note: If you are attending an Aerospace Short Course onsite at your place of employment, please contact your company's training coordinator for accommodation requests.
AERO0700 Course Information and Outline (PDF Document)
