Company Profile

Company Description:

Flight Science and Technology is one of a number of research groups within the Department of Engineering at Liverpool. The group culture is based on deep knowledge and expert skills in the aeronautical disciplines of flight dynamics, control, simulation, computational aerodynamics, aeroelasticity and handling qualities.

FS&T is uniquely positioned within academia to address questions relating to pilot-vehicle technologies, flight control, flight handling qualities, non-linear aerodynamics and, most generally, aircraft design through modelling, real-time flight simulation and high performance Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

The activities are organised under the Flight Simulation and CFD Laboratory themes, each with state-of-the-art facilities. For the Flight Simulation theme these include a motion flight simulator driven by the FLIGHTLAB and Matlab/Simulink modelling and simulation environments. A new two-seat reconfigurable motion flight simulator with a 210 x 70 degree field of view is now operational. The flight simulation facilities are used for a range of pilot-centred research, enabling visual perception and pilot vision aids design studies to be undertaken, as well as research in the areas of aircraft pilot couplings, active control technologies for handling qualities, envelope protection, carefree handling and structural load alleviation of rotary wing and tilt rotor aircraft.