Design and wind-tunnel analysis of a fully adaptive aircraft configuration

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2387-2395

  Neal, David A ^a   Good, Matthew G ^a   Johnston, Christopher O ^a   Robertshaw, Harry H ^a   Mason, William H ^a   Inman, Daniel J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC TESTING; FLIGHT CONTROL; SPAN WIND TUNNEL MODELS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV);

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; DESIGN; DRAG; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 16244404931     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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