ACME Worldwide Projects

KC-10 Refueling Boom Operator Trainer:  The United States Air Force has long used aerial-refueling simulators to train and certify KC-10 Extender Refueling boom operators.  The simulators, known as the Boom Operator Trainers or BOT, have received a wide range of independent upgrades and modifications to keep the trainer operational and effective.  Although the trainer remained functional with the upgrades, the basic obsolescence of the trainer’s technology was not addressed and over time, the simulator, suffered from supportability issues.  In addition, a large recent effort to update the system with high fidelity models of selected receiver aircraft to regain certifiable performance did not achieve the intended utility for actual training use.  The compounded problems of supportability and sub-par fidelity decreased the inherent value of the simulator and a change was crucial.  More Info ...

KC-135 Air-Refueling Trainer: At present, there are only two KC-135 boom operator trainers available to the Air Force. The two trainers were originally developed in 1978 with a visual system upgrade in 1990. Due to a variety of circumstances, one of the two trainers was out of service. As a consequence of the age of the trainers and the limitation on trainer availability, tremendous pressure rested on a single, fragile resource.  More Info ...

Special Operations Forces ATARS: Lockheed-Martin Information Services (L-M) is the prime contractor for a comprehensive Air Force contract logistic support (CLS) contract for the Special Operations Forces called ATARS, Prime Contract# F42630-00-C-0206. The CLS support is for the Air Force Special Operations training centers at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, Hurlbert Field, and Eglin AFB, Florida. The two centers have numerous fixed and rotary wing simulators as well as other types of simulators. ACME is a prime subcontractor to Lockheed-Martin in the support and modification of the trainers at Kirtland AFB.  More Info ...

Naval Air Maintenance Trainer (NAMT) Rework Program: ACME was responsible for addressing maintenance trainer discrepancies across the entire spectrum of Navy maintenance training devices. The ACME effort to address these discrepancies includes: a) Evaluation of Navy maintenance trainers to ascertain trainer status.  b) Repair of existing trainers to address faulty equipment, obsolete parts, or out of tolerance trainer performance. The trainer repair has included fabricating obsolete components, reverse engineering to identify currently available parts and components, and re-designing trainer unique printed circuit boards. c) Refurbishment of trainers to ...  More Info ...

P-3 Orion Air Conditioning and Pressurization Trainer:  The US Air Force P-3 Orion Air Conditioning and Pressurization trainer project was essentially an upgrade of an old trainer.  The old trainer was designed around relay logic, timing cams, and a back lit wood and plastic transparency.  The IOS (Instructor Operator System) interface to the P-3 trainer involved a series of switches and knobs.  Much of the functionality of the old trainer was lost due to low reliability components and unavailable replacements.  More Info ...

US Army Train Simulator:  The US Army maintains a large fleet of locomotives and rail vehicles throughout the United States to facilitate the movement of equipment and supplies.  It also provides engineers for overseas operations, both in times of war and peace.  Before LETS, the Army was forced to use simulators owned by commercial railroads, or even take equipment off the line to provide training and certification for their engineers.  The decision was made to procure training devices owned, operated, and dedicated to training Army personnel.  for the Transportation Command’s school at Ft. Eustis, VA: This was particularly advantageous in that the locomotive cab, trains, and locomotives could be tailored to Army specification, rather than just taking what was available and often mis-matched in the civilian world.   More Info ...

Raytheon Hawker 800: This program was a trainer development project. ACME was responsible for the design, development, fabrication, and testing of a Level C Full Flight Simulator (FFS) cockpit assembly for a Raytheon Hawker 800/800XP business jet. The cockpit assembly consists of the cockpit with avionic displays, primary and secondary flight controls, a supporting base frame, instrumentation and cabling, control loading system, and the signal I/O system.  More Info ...

Eclipse 500 Engineering Simulator: This program was a trainer development project.  Using a customer supplied aircraft hulk as well as other components, ACME designed, developed, tested and delivered the hardware for an engineering simulator for use in the development of the Eclipse 500 business jet and integrated the hardware with the customer supplied software.  ACME responded to an Eclipse inquiry to build the trainer and was under contract in less than 30 days.  More Info ...

F-16 Dodecahedron: Because of other successful work for Lockheed Martin Information Systems (L-M), ACME was approached by L-M personnel from the Luke AFB simulation facility because of difficulties they were experiencing with a ground based partial dome (mini-dome). Subsequent to the contact, a design consulting contract was initiated by L-M whereby ACME mechanical design engineers would investigate and report on the installation and maintenance problems L-M was experiencing with the mini-dome. ACME sent a team of engineers to the Luke AFB site and conducted a thorough investigation into the existing design. Included in the investigation was the development of a 3-D model of the mini-dome so that finite element and modal analyses could be conducted.  More Info ...

Comanche Dynamic Seat :  ACME designed Dynamic Motion Seat Systems to provide the motion cues for the RAH-66 Comanche Mission Simulator.  The seats were representative of the actual Comanche aircraft seat in appearance as well as function. More Info ...

WSMR High Speed Carrier:  The development of a High Speed Aerial Cable Carrier (Carrier) for White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) was initiated with a one page statement of objectives, a verbal briefing by ACME identifying a technical approach, and contract award. All the activities occurred within 30 days. More Info ...