Flight dynamics of flapping-wing air vehicle

AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Krashanitsa, Roman Y ^a,c   Silin, Dmitry ^a,c   Shkarayev, Sergey V ^a,c   Abate, Gregg ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Dept of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Experiments; Flapping; Flight; Ornithopter; Stability; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; AUTOMATION; CONTROL SURFACES; CONTROL THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS; FLAPPING; FLAPPING WING AIR VEHICLES; FLIGHT; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; ORNITHOPTER; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STABILITY AUGMENTATIONS;

WINGS;

EID: 78651241868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-6698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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