High altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle of a new generation - A design challenge for a low cost, reliable and high performance aircraft

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-194

  Goraj, Z ^a   Frydrychewicz, A ^a   Switkiewicz R ^a   Hernik, B ^a   Gadomski, J ^a   Goetzendorf Grabowski, T ^a   Figat, M ^a   Suchodolski, St ^a   Chajec, W ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b PZL Mielec ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Flutter; Safety; Stability; Structure; UAV

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIRCRAFT ENGINES; AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); LANDING GEAR (AIRCRAFT); SPACE SURVEILLANCE; STABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WINGS;

BLENDED WINGS (BW); FLUTTER; LONGITUDNAL CONTROL; STRUCTURE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 22244488359     PISSN: 02397528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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