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With its domestic and qualified engineering workforce, BNA is ready to
undertake the design and production responsibility in important work
packages relating to national and indigenous air platform and system
development projects conducted in Turkey, and to offer solutions in a broad range of
areas from aircraft si ing and external geometry design to flight performance analyses
from aerodynamic design and analysis to the planning and execution of wind tunnel tests
from structural design and analysis to modelling and flight mechanics analysis and from
external load integration and safe separation analysis to airworthiness certification.
To ensure the highest level of domestic contribution in line with Turkey's vision and policies for
industrialisation, BNA has commenced talks with leading companies in Turkey and around the world
under the role of First-Tier Indigenous System Supplier, and plans to move forward with these potential
collaborations in near future. In this context, the subsystems in which the company has already initiated
collaborations are as follows:
Ÿ Active Digital Flight Control Systems
Ÿ Engine Control Systems
Ÿ Hydraulic Systems
Ÿ Environmental Control and ressuri ation Systems
Ÿ Fuel Systems
BNA will carry out its advanced technology system integration, installation and testing activities
at its simulator and system integration laboratory, which is currently under construction.
Activities at this laboratory will include the development of software used in aircraft
subsystems prototype production and assembly and the testing and certification of
software and hardware at ine eplaceable Unit level.
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In addition to aligning
its vision for system
development and production
with the specific requirements
of domestic and indigenous design
programmes, BNA also designs - as
required in the technical specifications
of these programmes - D projects for
critical and confidential technological
information needs, thus developing road maps
for the acquisition of critical technologies. As for
the Turkish Fighter Development (TF- ) rogramme,
for which design activities are still ongoing, BNA
continues to conduct research and development activities
together with Turkish companies and universities on new
generation Active Digital Flight Control Systems, and on lower
observability technologies found in similar aircraft products around
the world. Furthermore, with regards to projects involving the
development of power systems based on fully indigenous capabilities,
BNA has been discussing with both Turkish and foreign companies for the
Full Authority Digital Engine Control System (FADEC) needed for these projects.
On-going BNA Projects
At this point, BNA succeeded to sign 3 (three) national and international projects in a very
short time period and project activities have been started.
Versatile Gas Turbine Controller Development Project
An agreement was signed with AES (Aerospace Embedded Solutions mbH) which is a joint venture of
MTU, one of ermany's largest engine manufacturers, and SAF AN, a leading French company in the
fields of aerospace, defence and security for the development and production of the state-of-the-art
Engine Control System, which is considered as the brain of the engine. This project will create added
value on behalf of Turkey by exporting high technology to ermany.
Virtual Reality Human-Computer Interface Development Project
BNA signed an agreement with BAE Systems about Human-Computer Interface by which development
and remediation of Virtual eality applications and development potential for new applications will be
defined. The developed system will include more up-to-date and new technologies than current Virtual
eality applications in Turkey. This project will be a first in Turkey and it is foreseen that it will draw
considerable interest of the companies which have virtual cockpit products and which act on computer
aided digital model design management or similar fields.
Diagnostics Dashboard Development Project
An agreement signed with FNNS for a software development project by which all data of
wheeled/tracked tactical combat vehicles being transferred can be displayed, dimensions
of these data can be changed and placed effectually on a tablet. At the end of this
project, the developed product will provide import substitution and a domestic
software will be developed which specially designed for display requirements of
combat vehicles.