AAR Videos

Here you can compare our real time model performance with live AAR video recorded by the RAF (the RAF video is on the left!). You can see the highly correlated behaviour of the Hunter hose and drogue physics model during contact and disconnect. The RAF video was recorded to showcase their trials of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as part of the highly laudable RAF mission to reduce carbon emissions and achieve Net Zero by 2040. Of course, an even bigger contribution to help reach Net Zero is to fly the aircraft less and train more on a simulator using the Hunter Hose and Drogue model. (34sec)

This video shows a test integration with Metrea Aerospace's NOR platform and is our first foray into lower-end pilot training simulators. (1min 7sec)

We currently do not have any plans to integrate our model with any hobby level simulations. However we do not rule this out in future! If you want to see more about the challenges in flying and simulating AAR, and some of the reasons why we are not looking at hobby level simulators yet, you may be interested in the 'HSL AAR Presentation at RAeS' presentation on this page.

Video from our Laptop Demonstrator showing a spokes contact and the drogue damage malfunction. (55sec)

Chris Hunter and AAR expert Henry Clarke giving a presentation on AAR and AAR modelling at the Royal Aeronautical Society Flight Simulation Conference in October 2021. (21min)

Several contacts at increasing closure rates but within the normal contact range. (44sec)

Contact at too high a closure rate causing probe break and hard drogue hit from off centre approach. (30sec)

Manoeuvring in contact including edge of envelope for maintaining contact. (44sec)

Flying to contact at correct closure rate with a dead hose where the hose does not reel in on contact. (38sec)

Several contacts with drogue rim showing coupling tipping and hose response. (50sec)

Effect of varying levels of turbulence on hose and drogue. (55sec)

Automatic reel in of hose when receiver flying in contact pushes too far in towards the Hose Drum Unit (HDU). (35sec)

This video contains a compilation of the various aspects of the AAR model that we tested, recorded in real time mainly direct from the pilot's VR headset feed. (4mins 47sec)