27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-1.11.1

DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF FLEXI-BIRD - A LOW COST SUB-SCALE RESEARCH AIRCRAFT FOR SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Z. Goraj, K. Kittmann*, R. Voit-Nitschmann*, M. Szender
Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland; *Stuttgart Univ., Germany

Keywords: system design, free flight test, scaled model, avionics, autopilot

Paper presents a scaled aircraft built for research of environmental issues and safety of passenger airplane flight. Design philosophy, structure, on-board systems, preparation to flight operation and data measured in free flight experiments will be presented in details. Important design principle of the whole system is modularity and flexibility.

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