The lightning tests for the radome in Z11 helicopter of China

Author

Zemin Duan ; Xiaoliang Si ; Jie Feng ; Jingbo Duan ; Youyuan Ni ; Xin Li ; Rongbao Chen ; Anhong Sun

Author_Institution

Hefei Hang Tai Electrophys. Technol. Ltd. of AVIC, Hefei, China

fYear

2012

fDate

3-7 June 2012

Firstpage

620

Lastpage

623

Abstract

The lightning protection tests which are simulated by power modulator and high voltage technology are used the radome system in the Z11 helicopter of China, it is presented in the paper. The radome system is composed of the radome, the lightning diverters, the air data probe and a long 0.5m metal structure which simulated a part of the helicopter body. The test facilities and the test results are introduced. Based on the tests, the radome system performance preventing lightning destruction is improved by optimizing the diverters. Finally, the optimized radome system passed the ground simulated lightning tests successfully by the Chinese CCAR27 (equal to FAR27) and the standard of lightning protection of aircraft HB6129-87(equal to SAE ARP 5416).

Keywords

divertors; helicopters; lightning protection; radomes; Chinese CCAR27; FAR27; SAE ARP 5416; Z11 helicopter; air data probe; aircraft HB6129-87; ground simulated lightning tests; high voltage technology; lightning destruction prevention; lightning diverters; lightning protection tests; metal structure; power modulator; radome system performance; test facilities; Lightning protection tests; helicopter; radome;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1222-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPMHVC.2012.6518820

Filename

6518820