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Flight Sciences

At HSB Solutions, we deliver comprehensive Flight Sciences capabilities across the full aircraft development lifecycle. Our expertise spans flight performance, flight mechanics, flight control laws, modeling & simulation, and method & tools development, supporting both conventional and advanced aircraft concepts.

 

We combine deep domain knowledge, prior programme experience, and adaptability to meet evolving regulatory, operational, and technological requirements. From early design trade studies to certification support, HSB Solutions is a trusted partner in Flight Sciences.

What We Do in Flight Sciences:
Flight Performance

We specialize in analysing, enhancing and optimizing aircraft performance. Our expertise includes mission analysis and optimization of different aircraft configurations. These functions are critical to ensuring optimum aircraft performance, compliance with certification standards, and developing comprehensive test plans.

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  • Mission and Point Performance Analysis.

  • Performance Analysis and Optimization of Different Aircraft Configurations, including electric, hybrid-electric, and internal combustion-powered (piston and turbine engine) fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

  • Performance Sizing and Trade-Off Analysis of different airframe concepts, propulsion architectures, and payload capacities.

  • Takeoff, Landing, and Maneuvering Performance Analysis

  • Development of Performance Databases

  • Certification & Test Planning for Flight Performance

Flight Mechanics

Our Flight Mechanics capabilities span sizing of control surfaces, stability assessments and thorough handling and flying quality analysis.

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  • Flight Characteristics and Handling Qualities requirements definition and allocation

  • Sizing and Optimization of Control Surfaces or Control Power

  • Stability and Controllability Analysis

  • Handling and Flying Qualities Assessment by Simulation and Flight Testing

  • Flight Data Analysis & Validation

  • Certification & Test Planning for Handling and Flying Qualities

Flight Control Law Design & Development

Our expertise in Flight Control Law Design is critical to aircraft functionality. We focus on the development of control laws, stability analysis, and the design of autopilots and navigation systems. Our team brings extensive experience in the application of both classical and modern control techniques for flight control law development. We follow a structured model-based development approach aligned with DO-331 principles, ensuring traceability, verification rigor, and certification-ready model implementation.

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  • Flight Control Law Design

  • Stability & Robustness Analysis

  • Autopilots, Guidance and Navigation Algorithm Design

  • Model-Based Design aligned with DO-331 objectives

  • Validation & Verification of Flight Control Laws 

  • Certification & Test Planning for Flight Control Laws

Modeling & Simulation

Our Modeling & Simulation services are integral to aircraft design covering requirements capture, simulation environment implementation, and subsystem model development and integration. These services ensure a thorough understanding of real system behavior and support the validation & verification and compliance for certification.

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  • Requirements Capture for Modeling & Simulation

  • High-Fidelity Simulation Environment Specification and Implementation

  • Code and Model Development & Support

  • Integration of Subsystem Models with Varying Fidelity Levels

  • Integration of Simulation Models into various test platforms, including Engineering Simulators, Flight Simulation Training Devices, and System Integration Laboratories

  • Support to verification, validation, and compliance demonstration activities

System Identification & Model Validation

We provide structured support to System Identification and Model Validation activities, ensuring simulation models accurately represent real system dynamics.

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  • Time-domain and frequency-domain system identification

  • Design and execution of system identification test campaigns (flight test, bench test, or subsystem-level testing)

  • Parameter estimation of aerodynamic, propulsion, and subsystem dynamics

  • Uncertainty quantification and model confidence assessment

  • Model verification and validation using residual, coherence, and cross-validation analyses

  • Development of processes, tools, and automated workflows for system identification and model validation


HSB Solutions is dedicated to advancing the field of Flight Sciences. To find out more about our Flight Sciences capabilities and how they can benefit your projects, please contact us at info@hsb-solutions.com.

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