Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design is the essential guide to
designing, building and testing fixed wing UAVs (or drones). It
deals with aircraft from two to 150 kg in weight and is based on
the first-hand experiences of the world renowned UAV team at the UK
s University of Southampton. The book covers both the practical
aspects of designing, manufacturing and flight testing and outlines
and the essential calculations needed to underpin successful
designs. It describes the entire process of UAV design from
requirements definition to configuration layout and sizing, through
preliminary design and analysis using simple panel codes and
spreadsheets to full CFD and FEA models and on to detailed design
with parametric CAD tools. Its focus is on modest cost approaches
that draw heavily on the latest digital design and manufacturing
methods, including a strong emphasis on utilizing off-the-shelf
components, low cost analysis, automated geometry modelling and 3D
printing. It deliberately avoids a deep theoretical coverage of
aerodynamics or structural mechanics; rather it provides a design
team with sufficient insights and guidance to get the essentials
undertaken more pragmatically. The book contains many all-colour
illustrations of the dozens of aircraft built by the authors and
their students over the last ten years giving much detailed
information on what works best. It is predominantly aimed at
under-graduate and MSc level student design and build projects, but
will be of interest to anyone engaged in the practical problems of
getting quite complex unmanned aircraft flying. It should also
appeal to the more sophisticated aero-modeller and those engaged on
research based around fixed wing UAVs.
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