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What are the Enabling Electronic

Technologies for Future Aircraft?

Evolving:Outlined in Table A (above) are the

primary enabling electronics. These are evolving

because, today, they are specific to mostly smaller

unmanned quadcopters (sUAS) and other

unmanned platforms (UAS).

As the ‘below 400ft community’ expands into the

‘over 500ft club’ (maintaining an intended 100ft

buffer), these technologies will develop further and

migrate, by necessity, into traditional evolved aircraft

operating above 500ft.

Advancing: Outlined in Table B (below), the primary

existing technologies are targeted to advance more

rapidly permitting inclusion into new platforms flying

at any altitude and within any accessible airspace.

By combining these two technology groups we

have the necessary bandwidth of tools to link our

future ‘spherical virtual aircraft’ to platforms, we are

presently familiar with.

These electronic-technology lists, and the

frequencies at which they operate (see Table C ,

top, right), are by no means comprehensive. For

example, they do not include newer forms that

may or may not emerge, such as aviation Artificial

Intelligence (AI), see Table D , bottom right.

Similar requests may be applied across all

sectors of society, including commerce, as the

initial step of a future transportation plan. Once a

transportation plan is activated, the profile is

created, setting in motion both ground and flight

legs.

Complex word commands are then created,

using AI and a future ‘cloud’ to commence the

motion of each form of transport. It may sound

futuristic, but you can bet it’s already on an

engineer’s table somewhere...

AVIONICS

Technology (inc. Soware) Function

Detect and Avoid (DAA) Separation

Air to Air Radar (ATAR) DAA Separation

Optical Sensing Visual Separation

LTE for Avionics Datalink, closed loop commands

RTK GPS Real-Time Kinetic precision position

Loss Link Actionable Soware for recovery

Auto Return Recovery Soware command

Diagnostics Real-time, in flight monitoring

C 2 Command & Control

Radio Frequency Identifying (RFID) Sensors Position & status monitoring

Geofencing Airspace protection and threat avoidance

(4G)

S 2 – 4 (4G)

C 4 – 8

X 8 – 12

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Table A: Primary Enabling Electronic Technologies

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Technology (inc. Soware) Function

Compact Satcom C-, Ku- or Ka-band datalink

Space-Based ADS-B Tracking & separation

ACASS Xu TCAS for autonomy

GPS L1/L2 Precision GPS-navigation

Inertial Management (IMU) Precision Situational Awareness

Advanced Flight Path Vector (FPV) 4D FPV take-o! & landing

Advanced Air Data & Flight Control eVTOL maneuvering

Real Time Remote Operations Transition, pilot to remote, then no pilot

Encryption & Cyber Protection Security & integrity of datalink

(4G)

S 2 – 4 (4G)

C 4 – 8

X 8 – 12

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Table B: Primary Existing Advancing Electronic Technologies

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