TY - JOUR
AU - Lundberg, Jon
AB - An advantage to using a Fly-By-Light system with fiberoptic transducers and interconnects is immunity to disrupts and/or failure due to lightning strikes. The most vulnerable area of any flight control system on a helicopter is the swashplate region, where linear optical position transducers (LOPTs) would measure mean rotor actuator ram position. On the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, LOPTs would be mounted inside the cylinders of these rams, providing protection from a direct lightning attachment to the ram. Lightning survivability testing was conducted at the Boeing Developmental Center's Lightning Facility the week of December 14 - 18, 1992. A time-division multiplexed LOPT was tested in a protected, aircraft-similar installation as well as unprotected. Transducer data during the strikes were compared to the results of similar tests performed on a linear variable differential transformer.
TI - Lightning testing of a linear optical position transducer
JF - Proceedings of SPIE
DO - 10.1117/12.188841
DA - 1994-10-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/spie/lightning-testing-of-a-linear-optical-position-transducer-95jRJZTgUR
SP - 94
EP - 104
VL - 2295
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -