Design and configuration layouts of an advanced long endurance UAV- lessons learnt after flight testing

28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-180

  Goraj, Zdobyslaw ^a   Rodzewicz, Miroslaw ^a   Grendysa, Wojciech ^a   Jonas, Marek ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aircraft design; Stability; Trimming; UAS

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DESIGN; BORDER SURVEILLANCE; DYNAMIC RESEARCHES; FLIGHT TEST; FLIGHT TESTING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; UAS;

AERODYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SAFETY TESTING; TRIMMING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84878568197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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