Evolution of the flight testing program at West Virginia University in support of flight control research

52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 469-483

  Gururajan, Srikanth ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Seanor, Brad ^a   Prucz, Jacky ^a   Napolitano, Marcello ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PLATFORM; AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; AIRCRAFT PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION; AVIATION SAFETY; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT DATA; FLIGHT TESTING; FORMATION FLIGHT; HISTORICAL VIEW; ONBOARD AVIONICS; OVERALL DESIGN; ROTARY-WING PLATFORMS; SENSOR AND ACTUATORS; SMALL UAV; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITIES; WING PLATFORM;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AVIONICS; FIXED WINGS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84867032786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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