Ground effect experiments and model validation with Draganflyer X8 rotorcraft

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1158-1166

  Sharf, I ^a   Nahon, M ^a   Harmat, A ^a   Khan, W ^a   Michini, M ^a   Speal, N ^a   Trentini, M ^b   Tsadok, T ^a   Wang, T ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering McGill ^*  (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GROUND EFFECT; PROPELLERS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS LANDING; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; HEIGHT ABOVE GROUND; MODEL VALIDATION; RESEARCH RESULTS; ROTARY AIRCRAFT; TEST STANDS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84904556682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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