Health Monitoring Aircraft

A description is given of the health monitoring aircraft concept, which will incorporate innovative sensors, AI, and advanced analytical techniques to provivide real-time and continual aircraft health assessment. According to this concept, all flight-critical structures will be evaluated for integrity as part of the automated preflight checklist. The pilot will be given a visual display of the health of all systems prior to takeoff. Any in-flight change in the health of the aircraft wil be displayed along with recommended action. In order to achieve these capabilities, state-of-the-art structural integrity computer programs, together with AI/neutral network decision-making software, will be incorporated as part of the aircraft computing capability. The life history of the aircraft will be continually and automaticaly updated so that acccurate structural integrity assessments can be made.