Inflatable and warpable wings for meso-scale UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - InfoTech at Aerospace: Advancing Contemporary Aerospace Technologies and Their Integration

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2306-2318

  Simpson, Andrew ^a,b   Jacob, Jamey ^a,b   Smith, Suzanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; STIFFNESS; WINGS;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; DAMAGE RESISTANCE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33748693362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-7161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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