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Wednesday, October 3, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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Students to design new business plane
Bv Amv Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
A control panel of even the simplest aircraft contains about 300 dials, but some KU engineering students operate them by a keypad and eliminate many of the controls.
"The overall objective is to show it is technologically feasible to make flying a plane as easy as driving a car," said Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering. "We have made flying so complex that novices get scared stiff when they enter a plane."
Roskam said a pilot had to fly, navigate and communicate with air traffic control simultaneously.
"With today's technology, I don't think it is necessary to make flying that difficult," he said.
Electrical engineering students and Roskam's Advanced Aircraft Design I class began working this semester on a project to design a plane that would be useful to small corporations.
The project is financed by the University Space Research Association, which is administered through NASA.
The plane is designed to appeal to corporations that have an annual income of about $20 million. Those who fly in this aircraft are in this bracket, Roskam said.
Whether industry will accept the design is uncertain, he said. If the design is successful, production could begin in eight to 10 years.
Flight training would be minimal to operate the proposed plane, said John Roper, Kansas City, Kan. A flight instructor is also a heised flight instructor.
"You need 40 hours of flight training to get a private pilot's license, but it will probably be knocked down to
five hours," he said. "The intention is to design a plane somebody can just hop in and fly."
Even though the pilot may be in the clouds, the computer displayed terrain, which would show stick images of buildings and other objects, could be seen on the windshield. Roper said.
A computer in the plane would handle many of the tasks that the pilot previously executed, such as aerial refueling and a rear-second automatically, he said.
The pilot would punch his destination into the computer and then steer through a series of loops or tubes on the aircraft. He would indicate in guidance in severe weather, he said.
Roper said a computer image on a screen on the plane's window would help the pilot navigate in bad weather conditions.
If the plane malfunctioned, the pilot would not have to search through the operating manual or look down at the control panel. The command line would flash a warning and tell the pilot how to take corrective action, he said.
"If it needed to be done fast enough, the computer might automatically correct the problem." Roper said.
Roper said that the computer would communicate with a satellite and air traffic control. The pilot would receive information such as the plane's altitude, latitude and longitude, which is accurate within 16 meters on his position, from the satellite, he said.
If the computer system failed, back-up computer systems would be activated.
A satellite of this type now is used by the U.S. military, but the business planes could use a different signal, Roper said.
Kansan staff writer
Second church to help construct family homes
By Tracey Chalpin
Last week, a second church officially was accepted as a covenant church of the Lawrence chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., will join Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampton Sta. in supporting Habitat, an organization that renovates houses and new homes for low-income families.
Habitat has built two houses in Lawrence and is renovating a third.
John Gingerich, president of Lawrence Habitat for Humanity, said that churches that made covariant agreements with Habitat agreed to actively support the program by offering money and soliciting volunteers.
Gingerich said he valued church involvement.
Before a church is accepted as a covenant church, it is urged to appoint members to a board that will keep in touch with Habitat.
"It's one of the key ingredients to Habitat in Lawrence and other places also," he said.
"We pray for the ministry and spread the word for the Habitat ministry," she said.
Grace Cooper, member of the mission board at Plymouth Congregational Church, said she received the certificate of covenant standing from Habitat for Humanity a few days ago.
Cooper said that one of the projects the church might undertake was a Christmas collection program that would pay for fixtures such as lights, sinks and appliances in the low-income housing.
"That way, it's more meaningful to the congregation," she said. "We actually bought the plumbing in the second house."
Macaulay said the church set Oct. 28 as a day when church services would feature a prayer forum support the goals of Habitat for Humanity.
John Macauley, rector of the parish at Trinity Lutheran Church, said the church would aid Habitat through financial support and prayer.
"We'll remember the homeless on that Sunday," he said.
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