28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-3.3.4

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF A BI-PLANE MICRO AIR VEHICLE

A. Maqsood, C. W. T. Chang, T. H. Go
Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

Keywords: biplane, mav, wind-tunnel testing, flight performance

Wind-tunnel testing is performed on various configurations of biplane MAV. The design parameters varied are: gap, stagger and decalage angle. Empirical formulas relating the aerodynamic properties of monoplane and biplane are derived using least square regression methods. Finally the flight performance evaluations are done between optimized biplane and monoplane configurations.

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