James W. Gregory - Introduction to Flight Testing

16 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Example of a palm‐sized quad‐rotor drone.Figure 16.2 An RQ‐4 Global Hawk drone.Figure 16.3 The MQ‐8B Fire Scout, an example of an unmanned aircraft with a ...Figure 16.4 A typical quadrotor drone, the most common configuration of a UA...Figure 16.5 The OSU Octavian, an eight‐rotor VTOL drone carrying a mast‐moun...Figure 16.6 The NASA “Greased Lightning” GL‐10 prototype UAV, an example of ...Figure 16.7 Typical data display for a UAS ground control station.Figure 16.8 Typical avionics system architecture for an unmanned aircraft.Figure 16.9 The Peregrine UAS, a fixed‐wing electric propulsion aircraft for...Figure 16.10 Performance data for the APC 10×7E propeller. Note the dependen...Figure 16.11 Excess power of the Peregrine UAS.Figure 16.12 Lift‐to‐drag ratio of the Peregrine from flight testing, compar...Figure 16.13 Glide flight test results for gusting wind conditions.Figure 16.14 Comparison of glide flight test results obtained from the air d...Figure 16.15 The Avanti turbojet‐powered UAS, depicted in the flare to landi...Figure 16.16 Testing of the Avanti communications antenna radiation patterns...Figure 16.17 The Avanti UAS during the world record‐setting flight (as seen ...Figure 16.18 Measured deceleration as a function of airspeed during coast‐do...Figure 16.19 Lift‐to‐drag ratio data from coast‐down testing, along with a m...Figure 16.20 Radio range flight testing results.Figure 16.21 Example of an emergent property of an autonomous system, where ...

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