Mini UAV design and optimization for long endurance mission

ICAS Secretariat - 26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2008, ICAS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2636-2647

  Goraj, Zdobyslaw ^a   Cisowski, Jerzy ^b   Frydrychewicz, Andrzej ^b   Grendysa, Wojciech ^b   Jonas, Marek ^b  

^a WUT IAAM ^*  (United States)

^b WUT Centre of Excellence of Aircraft Design   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft design; Composite technology; Stability; UAS

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC OPTIMISATION; AIRCRAFT DESIGN; BASELINE CONFIGURATIONS; COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION; RELIABILITY AND SAFETIES; TARGET CONFIGURATIONS; UAS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SWEPT WINGS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84878515561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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