Airspeed
Consultants in Salisbury

Airspeed, an Australian company designing and building in composite materials for aerospace, maritime energy related projects. Our airborne equipment pods fly on a variety of aircraft. Airspeed electronics pods allows the rapid integration of mission payloads on military fast jets, turboprop trainers, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AV’s) and helicopters. The Airspeed cargo pod offers a Military Off The Shelf (MOTS) solution for the carriage of pilot personal equipment and aircraft deployment items on military fast jets. Airspeed Pt Ltd has considerable earlier experience with the Design Build’ of lightweight composite structures for submarines. Composite materials include carbon, aramid and glass fibers. Our composites manufacturing, or build’, capabilities include multiaxis filament winding, autoclave, vacuum bagged oven cured laminates and resin infusion using carbon, aramid and glass fibers. Airspeed has successfully undertaken a range of notable projects varying from submarine lightweight replacement structure through to radioactive waste storage containers. This design allows transmitting and receiving elements to be distributed within the pod architecture. Heat is removed from the mission payload via conduction cooling and the cooling air flow is separated from the payload volume by seals on the side of the electronics rack, preventing ice, moisture and foreign particles such as dust and sand from entering the protected payload volume. The key to the rapid integration philosophy for the Low Drag Electronics Pod is the highly tasteful aerodynamic profile. Employing natural laminar flow principles to ensure that the carriage of the airborne equipment pod does not generate shock waves or affect the aerodynamic streamlines at adjacent pylon stations or aircraft structure. Copies of the test reports are available upon request. The Airspeed Low Drag Electronics Pod offers a low risk, rapid integration path for mission specific payloads on the broadest feasible range of military aircraft. MOTS solution for the carriage of pilot personal equipment and aircraft deployment items. The cargo pods bear a safe means of carrying pilot personal equipment and aircraft deployment items in a military aircraft. The advanced aerodynamic shape employs laminar flow technology and provides a abundant internal volume with the aerodynamic drag of a much smaller store. The Cargo Pod has been rigorously and formally competent to MILSTD810F including the following environmental tests: The Airspeed Cargo Pod offers a low risk, rapid integration path for any military aircraft with the military standard 14 pylons. Airspeed Pt Ltd has considerable before experience with the application of composite materials for submarines. For submarines using modern, lightweight, resin infused composites to decrease topside weight and improve transverse stability. One project replaced a steel casing with a unused composite structure weighing just 38 of the clever structure, allowing a meaningful weight to be returned to stationary ballast. Airspeed engineers have prepared a conceptual design of a fin for a normal submarine that implements an increased uptake of composite materials. A composite fin was found to be capable of withstanding the identical design loads as a steel fin, employed a higher number of modular masts and quiet offered a weight saving of numerous tonnes, offering a significant opportunity for improvement in the transverse stability of the submarine.