Case Studies & Videos

Learn how Rockwell Collins can help customers take their Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and manned aircraft programs from concept to market quickly and at low lifecycle cost. See our products in action and our customers reach success, from launching a concept program to maintaining an aircraft in theater.

		Stock Flight Systems - Pitts S2B Stock Flight Systems of Germany flight tested our Micro INS integrated INS/GPS/ADAHRS system.
		DARPA's Damage Tolerance DARPA contracted with Rockwell Collins to determine a new approach to autonomously mitigate the effects of physical damage that could potentially occur in an air combat environment.
		Alenia Aeronautics - Sky-X UCAS The Sky-X, one of the first European UCAV development programs designed for strategic reconnaissance surveillance and combat missions, is powered by a single jet engine, is capable of speeds up to 440 knots, can climb above 30,000 ft and perform high g maneuvers.
		AAI Corporation - U.S. Army Shadow Tactical UAS AAI turned to Rockwell Collins for a flight control system that was small and low cost, with the highest possible level of reliability and performance.
		General Atomics - Sky Warrior General Atomics chose the Athena 511, a compact, integrated inertial navigation system, global positioning system (INS/GPS) and air data sensor suite, to provide dual back-up navigation capabilities for the Warrior.
		DARPA - Organic Air Vehicle-II (OAV-II) As a subcontractor, Rockwell Collins was tapped to provide the flight controls for the ducted fan GoldenEye OAV-II.
		Loiter Attack Munitions Raytheon subcontracted to Rockwell Collins to demonstrate how flight controls can enable the LAM to autonomously loiter and target.
		Raytheon UCAV Demonstrator To prove that our flight controls could quickly and reliably fly Raytheon's UCAV, we developed our own quarter-scale version of the UCAV demonstrator incorporating the Athena flight control and navigation system.
		CEi Air Force Sub Scale Target Drone With an overall length of 20 ft. and a wingspan just short of 11 ft., BQM-167A is capable of speeds in excess of .91 mach, aggressive advanced maneuvers up to 9 g and performance in an altitude envelope from 20 ft. to 50k ft.
		Mars Flyer Demonstrator - HADD-I NASA's Langley Research Center was developing a subscale prototype of a vehicle to fly above Mars. Rockwell Collins was subcontracted to provide flight control and navigation to the vehicle.
		Autonomous Unicycle While a student at MIT, Dr. David Vos, Director of Control Technologies for Rockwell Collins, developed a mathematical design process that enabled a unicycle to be controlled autonomously. This technology forms the backbone of our Athena flight controls.