Design, analysis and hover performance of a rotary wing micro air vehicle

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-90

  Bohorquez, Felipe ^a   Samuel, Paul ^a   Sirohi, Jayant ^a   Pines, Darryll ^a   Rudd, Lael ^a   Perel, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BLADE ELEMENT MOMENTUM THEORY; FLIGHT STABILITY; MICRO AIR VEHICLES; ROTARY WING VEHICLES;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0038701876     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.48.80     Document Type: Article

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