Subscale Flight Test Model Development and Testing as a Tool for Unconventional Aircraft DesignShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: 6th CEAS Air and Space Conference, Aerospace Europe 2017 / [ed] George Bogdan Gherman, 2017, p. 495-496, article id 929Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
This work has the objective to show development of a non-conventional subscale aircraft tests and compare a preliminary numerical analysis with wind tunnel tests. The subscale flight tests can be used as a low cost tool and that can improve the learning curve, considering the future aircrafts are characterized by the use of new technologies and radical configurations. For this validation was built the ITA-BWB aircraft, a single engine and tailless concept. This project demonstrates all steps of preliminary analysis with VLM software, preliminary flight tests and wind tunnel tests, where these data were used for simulations of specific maneuvers used in parameter identification. Finally, the simulations demonstrated consistency between the static derivatives acquired by VLMsoftware and wind tunnel tests, which were used to estimate dynamic derivatives that allowed the simulation of specific maneuvers for subscale flight tests.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. p. 495-496, article id 929
Keywords [en]
Wind tunnel, subscale flight test, stability and control, flight mechanics, VLM
National Category
Aerospace Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173297ISBN: 9789730255973 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-173297DiVA, id: diva2:1528108
Conference
6th CEAS Air and Space Conference, Aerospace Europe, 16-20 October, 2017, Bucharest, Romania
2021-02-122021-02-122021-02-18Bibliographically approved