Design of unmanned flight vehicle systems for aerodynamic data acquisition

摘要

A series of design studies was conducted in order to develop flight vehicle concepts for remotely piloted vehicles intended for aerodynamic data acquisition with particular emphasis on the low Reynolds number flight regime. Five different concepts were developed as part of the senior level Aerospace Systems Design course at the University of Notre Dame. The systems were designed to provide surface pressure and component force measurements on specially instrumented lifting-surface test specimens which were to be carried aloft by a base flight vehicle. The project included the fabrication of subscale, remotely piloted technology demonstrators to validate the base vehicle flight worthiness.