BIG BLUE: High-altitude UAV demonstrator of mars airplane technology

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4461-4471

  Simpson, Andrew D ^a   Rawashdeh, Osamah A ^a   Smith, Suzanne W ^a   Jacob, Jamey D ^a   Smith, William T ^a   Lumpp Jr , James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INFLATABLE STRUCTURES; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WINGS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INFLATABLE WINGS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING; WING DESIGN;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EID: 33751524627     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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