Development of an automated helicopter stability & control flight testing data collection and analysis software system

This thesis presents the software system developed to collect, present and analyze helicopter stability and control flight test data near real time inflight. The software system is designed to be relatively simple to operate. The functionality of the program is presented in detail with example screenshots of each window in the entire program. The procedures for use of the program are presented in a step-by-step fashion that could serve as the basis for a user's manual.