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NASA, Bell complete helicopter, APT-70 Flights

by Teresa Whiting
NASA Armstrong
NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Cam-
paign continues to prepare for National Campaign 1
or NC-1 by conducting flight test efforts with various
industry partners.
The team most recently completed flights with Bell’s
APT-70 remotely piloted aircraft Dec. 14, 2021, at the
AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone in Fort Worth,
Texas, to test Bell’s Ground Based Surveillance System
or GBSS. Helicopter flights with a Bell 429 were also
conducted in September for this same effort. Both test
efforts are an extension of NASA’s Systems Integration
and Operationalization demonstrations.
Bell developed a deployable and low-cost GBSS
made of 15 Echodyne radars. The goal was for NASA
researchers to evaluate if this system would be feasible
for future use in identifying uncontrolled air taxi traffic
to help avoid collision risk.
The NASA team collected GBSS data from both the
helicopter and APT-70 flights in preparation for future
flight test collaborations with Bell. The data is currently
being evaluated to see how well the system tracked the
two vehicles during the flights.
Bell is one of several industry partners NASA’s AAM
National Campaign will be working with over the com-
ing months. Each industry partner brings new technolo-
gy, vehicle designs or infrastructure ideas to the project.
NASA’s vision for Advanced Air Mobility is to map
out a safe, accessible, and affordable new air trans-
portation system alongside industry partners and the
Federal Aviation Administration. Once developed, pas-
sengers and cargo will travel on-demand in innovative, Bell Textron photograph’
automated aircraft across town, between neighboring Bell Textron Inc.’s APT-70 remotely piloted aircraft flew over their Ground Based Surveillance System Dec. 14 at the AllianceTexas Mobility
cities, or to other locations typically accessed today Innovation Zone in Fort Worth, Texas. This effort is an extension of NASA’s Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) demonstrations
by car. and a part of NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign.

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