25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-1.1.2

FLAVIIR, AN INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY/INDUSTRY RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH & DEMONSTRATION OF UAV TECHNOLOGIES

J. P. Fielding, H. Smith
Cranfield Univ., UK

Keywords: Aircraft Design, UAV, Research, Advanced Technologies

The focus of “FLAVIIR” is to develop technologies which support low cost UAVs, and improving the exploitation of the research work completed. Twelve universities work on inter-university collaboration within disciplines and inter-disciplinary collaboration. The integration task builds several technologies into a sophisticated flying demonstrator UAV scheduled to fly in 2009.

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