JTP Mech & Elec: Trail Activities at the Woomera Test Facility
Combined Mechanical & Manufacturing, and Electrical & Electronic Joint Technical Programme Event, supported by the AIAA Adelaide Section.
Where:
Engineers House, Chapman Hall, 11 Bagot Street, North Adelaide
When:
6.15pm Tuesday 17th June 2008
Refreshments from 5:30pm
Who:
All visitors with an interest in Mechanical Engineering are welcome to attend (please RSVP).
Presenter
Dr Ian Tuohy
The Woomera Test Facility (WTF), which is operated by the RAAF Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG), is being heavily used for a diverse range of Defence and non-Defence air, space and ground trials. Recent and upcoming Australian Defence Force (ADF) programs include air-to-ground missile trials, bomb improvement trials, HyCAUSE and HIFiRE hypersonic trials, Explosive Ordnance activities and Electronic Warfare trials. Non-Defence programs include testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Japanese supersonic airplane trials and also the targeted landing of the Hayabusa asteroid sample return capsule in the Woomera Prohibited Area in mid 2010. This talk will present an overview of the WTF together with a selection of contemporary Australian and international trials that highlight the unique capabilities of the WTF as the largest land-based Test and Evaluation range in the world.
RSVP instructions and further information detailed in the printable brochure below.
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