27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-2.9.2

TETRA PTERA- EMPIRICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF STUDENT DESIGNED AND FLOWN FLAPPING WING MAV

E. Pinkas, L. Glassner, L. Hadad, S. Binyamin, A. Habiby, Y. Solomon, F. Zimmerman, Z. Zaltzman, B. Landkof
Technion, Israel

Keywords: flapping wings, mav, frequency, amplitude

The main objective of this Faculty of Aerospace Engineering student project was to design, investigate empirically and experimentally, build and fly a Micro Aerial Flapping Wing Vehicle with the capability of carry a video camera. In the process of investigation good correspondence to Ellington's empirical formula was shown.

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