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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 98 - Williamsburg - October 2006
Agenda Location	5 SUBCOMMITTEE A - AERONAUTIC AND SURFACE VEHICLES 5.2 Results of NASA/DARPA Automatic Probe and Drogue Refueling Flight Test
Title	Results of NASA/DARPA Automatic Probe and Drogue Refueling Flight Test
Presenter	Keith Schweikhard
Affiliation	NASA Dryden
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Abstract	The Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstrator (AARD) project was a fifteen month technology demonstration effort funded by DARPA to demonstrate fully autonomous probe to drogue refueling using a system utilizing a combination of relative GPS solution, and an optical tracking system. This system was designed, developed, integrated, and tested. On August 30, 2006 a successful autonomous plug was demonstrated using Boeing 707 tanker and a F-18B aircraft. This presentation provides an overview of the AARD project and flight test activities.