RAPID Software Manual Official Link?

[artking]

Hi!

I'm curious about the RAPID software "REPAIR ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE AND INTEGRATED DESIGN", especially it's manual. Is there an official link to it somewhere? I haven't been able to find it and the best I've seen so far is Scribd.

Thanks!

 

[dcascap]

fyi RAPID is not approved for DTA evaluation of cutouts anymore.

If you want to use it as a guideline or to understand the procedures you could use this:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA416231.pdf

 

[WKTaylor]

FYI...

Thread 'RAPID Software (Repair Assessment Procedure and Integrated Design) '

Dec 4, 2012

thread2-220355

Hello all!

I am currently looking for this software I need to use. But I found out FAA did stop the investing in it, the link to download the soft (

http://aar400.tc.faa.gov/RAPID/)

is not working anymore. Does any of you still have the install of this or maybe you do have another software solution?
This one was very practical because the results were accepted by EASA (and that's what I'm looking for) and most of all, it is free.

You'd be so nice.

• NotJack
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• Forum: Aircraft engineering

 

[crackman]

FYI, I was a beta tester for the software back in the 90s. Software was only meant for screening of repairs to determine safety risk following aloha. No real value in the software itself and the method has been proven to be unconservative and so no longer accepted for any analysis.

 

[Sparweb]

I believe the procedure described by the Chicago ACO paper (Eastin) and/or the Seattle ACO, augmented by Tom Swift's papers, are still the preferred guidelines for skin repairs and antenna penetrations.

If you absolutely must have the RAPID documentation, say for historical purposes, then see the attached files below.
You will need a PC with Windows 95 or 98 to install and run RAPID. Maybe XP will run it with some gentle coaxing.

In the unlikely chance that you are dealing with a structural failure in an aircraft, and you need to use RAPID is because it was the "substantiation" of a repair/penetration of the skin that has now failed, please let me know. I never deleted the old RAPID stuff from my archives, and could dig up more if you need it.