Flight Management and Data Acquisition System for a Dynamically Scaled Model Airplane

Quest® Aircraft Company, LLC is beginning a project to use dynamically scaled radio controlled aircraft models to reduce the risk in developing new full scale aircraft.

Background
Full sized test	airplanes are expensive	to build. As engineering nears production, changes become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to implement resulting in engineering "bandaids" such as vortex generators.

One potential solution is to create a dynamically scaled model that will behave similarly to the full-sized aircraft during flight. An onboard data acquisition system facilitates collection of various data parameters from the models during flight, the analysis of which will allow determination of the full-scale aircraft dynamic characteristics.