VSDDL

05/11/2021

Plenty of ongoing activity!

Assistant aerospace engineering professor Imon Chakraborty is partnering with several small businesses to advance technology for the development of advanced air mobility vehicles utilizing six Air Force Agility Prime awards.

03/26/2021

Short preview of some of our ongoing simulation work with Transcend Air Corporation as part of the Air Force Agility Prime program on Transcend's Vy400 tilt-wing VTOL concept. VSDDL is responsible for testing flight control laws, variations of cockpit displays, and inceptor mappings.

As part of a joint effort between Transcend Air Corporation (https://transcend.aero/) and VSDDL@Auburn University (https://www.vsddl.com/) on a Phase I USAF ...

03/19/2021

This one is going to be a very interesting project on a very interesting airplane concept:

Metro Hop has the green light from the United States Air Force Agility Prime program to test its patent pending Active Landing Gear™. The landing gear allows the Metro Hop aircraft to handle most vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) missions with superior performance.

02/24/2021

Size and simulate, baby!

Research in Flight (RIF), Flugauto, and Auburn University have teamed up to explore thepotential of Flugauto’s aerial transport platform for disaster response and military supportmissions. With the support of AFWERX, a United States Air Force program, the three partners have recently launched phas...

12/14/2020

VSDDL Meet the Crew (Dec 2020) - the students did a great job composing, shooting, and then editing this video.

11/17/2020

VSDDL Simulator 3, using the repurposed Diamond DA40 cockpit, has now attained IOC (Initial Operational Capability). Big thank you to VSDDL students as well as volunteers who put in time and effort to make this possible. Looking forward to a lot of flight simulation in 2021!

11/07/2020

11/07/2020

Coming online very very soon...

09/12/2020

A few short video clips of gust and turbulence encounter simulations at the close-out of Phase I of our STTR project with NASA Ames Research Center, partnering with Research in Flight (Roy Hartfield Vivek Ahuja)

07/29/2020

VSDDL concepts will now be documented briefly in a "hangar" on the VSDDL website. The qualifying criterion is that there needs to have been at least one technical paper about the concept before it appears in the "hangar".

LPC-01 Pushpak e-VTOL UAM LPC-01 Pushpak lift-plus-cruise Urban Air Mobility concept vehicle The LPC-01 Pushpak is a lift-plus-cruise all-electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (e-VTOL) Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle designed to carry up to four occupants. In vertical flight mode, eight lift rotors...