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Efficiency Of The United States Navy's Mid-Air Refueling System: Do The Best Pilots In The World Use The Best Equipment?, Austin Westfield
Efficiency Of The United States Navy's Mid-Air Refueling System: Do The Best Pilots In The World Use The Best Equipment?, Austin Westfield
Honors College
The United States Navy has used the Drogue refueling system since the 1950’s. This system, while incredibly effective, has design elements that, if improved upon, could save the Navy millions of dollars per year. For my thesis project within the University of Maine Honors College, I studied the drag characteristics of two models of a refueling apparatus. One model mirrored the current Navy design and the other was based on my sensor array design implemented within my Mechanical Engineering Capstone team project, which was to design, build, and fly a remote-controlled (RC) aircraft that deployed and retracted a towed array …