Library

Brochures

Annual Reports

SimLabs Technical Papers

Real-Time Simulation Documentation

In this section you will find online versions of our documentation.

Brochures

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Vertical Motion Simulator

   VMS Brochure HTML Format
   VMS Brochure PDF
   Tiltrotor 20th Anniversary HTML

Crew Vehicle Systems Research Facility

   CVSRF Brochure HTML Format
   CVSRF Brochure PDF

FutureFlight Central

   FutureFlight Central Brochure Cover PDF (Acrobat 6 Required)
   FutureFlight Central Brochure Inside PDF (Acrobat 6 Required)

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Annual Reports

The following annual reports describe flight simulation research and support projects conducted at the Aviation Systems Research, Technology, and Simulation Division, VMS and CVSRF facilities. Documents are provided in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

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   FY05 Annual Report (VMS, CVSRF, and FFC) [PDF format, 1.0 MB]

   FY04 Annual Report (VMS, CVSRF, and FFC) [PDF format, 1.0 MB]

   FY03 Annual Report (VMS, CVSRF, and FFC) [PDF format, 1.2 MB]

   FY02 Annual Report (VMS, CVSRF, and FFC) [PDF format, 7 MB]

   FY01 Annual Report (VMS, CVSRF, and FFC) [PDF format, 4.9 MB]

   FY00 Annual Report (VMS and CVSRF) [PDF format, 772 K]

   FY99 Annual Report (VMS and CVSRF) [PDF format, 4.1 MB]

   FY98 Annual Report (VMS and CVSRF) [PDF format, 4.9 MB]

   FY97 Annual Report (VMS and CVSRF) [PDF format, 685 K]

For annual reports not currently available online, please contact us using the information listed at the bottom of this page.

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Technical Papers

Included here are several technical papers from engineers in the Flight Systems and Simulation Research Division which were written to describe various topics of interest to users of the Vertical Motion Simulation facility at the NASA-Ames Research Center. Most of these papers were presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) international conferences. Here is a list of SimLabs’ technical papers.

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Real-Time Simulation Documentation

Technical documents pertinent to real time simulation are often requested from the Aerospace Simulation Operations Branch at NASA Ames Research Center. You can find certain of these documents in PDF format by visiting our Real-Time Simulation page. Most of these documents have been previously published by NASA; others are NASA-copyrighted “working papers.” Please be aware that these documents were created with Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and are not accessible to screen readers for the visually impaired. We will make these documents screen-reader accessible as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you would like us to send you a hardcopy of the documentation, please contact Kathleen Starmer.

The technology represented in these documents is generally available to users of the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) at NASA Ames Research Center, and instances have occurred where the aircraft industry has come to our facility with compliant models. This has been especially true where the technology resulted from applied research on simulation models provided in our partnership with the aircraft industry, notably with Boeing, Bell, and Sikorsky.

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