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Hao Qi, Shi-Jie Cao, Jia-Yue Wu, Yi-Ming Peng, Hong Nie and Xiao-Hui Wei
The tail-sitter VTOL UAV boasts not only high-speed cruising and air hovering capabilities, but also its unique tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing and hovering attitude enable aerial operations with an exceptionally small cross-sectional area. Thi...
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Christoforos S. Rekatsinas, Dimitris K. Dimitriou and Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis
The present paper investigates the design process and the dimensioning of a tailless type-C composite sandwich unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The objective is to investigate an innovative aircraft configuration which exceeds the standard approach of ribs...
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Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski and Agnieszka Kwiek
The article presents a study on the influence of aerodynamic model fidelity on dynamic characteristics. The Simulation and Dynamic Stability Analysis (SDSA) package was used to calculate the dynamic characteristics, using both eigenvalues (linearized mod...
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Zhongyuan Liu and Binqian Zhang
To solve the issues of directional control and aerodynamic moment coupling for a low-aspect tailless configuration with a diamond-shaped wing, we herein propose the concept of a flow coupling rudder (FCR). The FCR was composed of two basic control surfac...
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Mohsen Rostami, Julian Bardin, Daniel Neufeld and Joon Chung
In considering aircraft design, it is very important to effectively size the tail configuration for stability and control. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) focuses on the use of numerical optimization in the design of systems with multiple sub...
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Thomas R. Shearwood, Mostafa R. A. Nabawy, William J. Crowther and Clyde Warsop
Tailless aircraft without vertical stabilisers typically use drag effectors in the form of spoilers or split flaps to generate control moments in yaw. This paper introduces a novel control allocation method by which full three-axis control authority can ...
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