Development and Testing of an Inflight Engine Performance Monitoring Technique for the U.S. Navy P-3C Airplane 841462
In January 1983, the Naval Air Systems Command authorized a coordinated NAVAIRTESTCEN/Lockheed study to establish the feasibility of a low-cost procedure for monitoring U.S. Navy P-3C T56-A-14 engine performance from inflight recorded cockpit instrumentation. The resulting study, still in progress, was organized into three phases. In the first phase, a flight test program was conducted to obtain actual engine performance data from which performance standards or baselines could be developed. In the second phase, algorithms and procedures for implementing inflight engine performance trending were established. Finally, in January of 1984 a fleet trial was initiated. This paper discusses the user's motivation for such a system, describes the flight test program and associated analyses, outlines the proposed engine monitoring system, and concludes with a status report on the ongoing fleet trials.
Citation: Dupcak, J., Deppe, P., and Prevatt, R., "Development and Testing of an Inflight Engine Performance Monitoring Technique for the U.S. Navy P-3C Airplane," SAE Technical Paper 841462, 1984, https://doi.org/10.4271/841462. Download Citation
Author(s):
Joseph D. Dupcak, Paul Deppe, Rich Prevatt
Affiliated:
Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland
Pages: 12
Event:
Aerospace Congress and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Monitoring Systems-An Update-SP-0728
Related Topics:
Flight tests
Fleets
Mathematical models
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