1. Safety Planning for C-17A Airdrop Testing 24 Sep 09
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Safety Planning for C-17A Airdrop Testing 24 Sep 09
Mark “SCIPR” Jones Jr, Maj
418th Flight Test Squadron
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2. Overview Background: NASA Orion and Ares airdrop tests
Build-up and Recent Results
Modeling and Simulation for Safety Planning

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8. Build-up and Recent Results
Test Point
Objective
Results
Extraction line cut test
Demonstrate cutting procedure
Successful
Parachute tow test #1
Demonstrate Vectran extraction line loads
Airdrop #1, 40K lb JDTV
Build-up for parachute
Airdrop #2, 60K lb JDTV
Build-up for parachute and aircraft (instrumented ramp)
Extraction anomaly
Test tub
Demonstrate three parachute cluster design deployment
Parachute tow test #2
Demonstrate modified rigging procedure (anomaly corrected)
Airdrop #3, 72K lb JDTV
Parachute design load limit (DLL)
DLL validated
FQ, loads data for build-up
Airdrop #4, 78K lb JDTV
Build-up for aircraft
TBD
Airdrop #5, 85K
Airdrop #6, 90K
Demonstrate load safety margin

9. M&S for Safety Planning

10. M&S for Safety Planning

11. Questions?