Miscellaneous

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Lockheed Falcon unmanned aircraft

Uploaded on Sep 15, 2007

Computer animation of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' hypersonic cruise vehicle for DARPA Falcon programme

 

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Autonomous soaring drone

Published on Sep 5, 2014

RMIT UAS Research team successfully completes preliminary flight testing of its autonomous soaring Micro-Air-Vehicle.

The airframe (Alula) was kindly donated by Dream-Flight for Research purposes. It was instrumented with an autopilot programmed to autonomously slope soar.

This research was made possible, in part, through support and funding from the Defence Science Institute and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

 

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Will it fly? - Multiplane (decaplane)

Published on Jul 27, 2015

In the tradition of Flite Fest, Peter rallied some volunteers to build this all too famous failure to answer the question, will it fly?

 

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Micro aerial vehicle with bio-inspired separated flow wing

Jan 30, 2020

This video is part of "A bioinspired Separated Flow wing provides turbulence resilience and aerodynamic efficiency for miniature drones," by M. Di Luca; Y. Su; E. Shaw; K. Breuer at Brown University in Providence, RI; S. Mintchev at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland; published in Science Robotics 5, eaay8533 (2020) 29 January 2020.
Video courtesy Brown University

"A New Kind of Wing Dramatically Improves Flight for Small Drones"
Inspired by insects and small birds, this wing design offers a massive endurance boost for micro aerial vehicles

by Evan Ackerman
January 30, 2020