05 - Propulsion
INSTRUMENTATION OF A SUBESCALE GROUND EFFECT VEHICLE, VOLITAN, TO MEASURE FLIGHT PROPULSION EFFICIENCY
C. Fischer, 1Instituto Federal de São Paulo and Aeronautics Institute of Tec, Germany; M.A.R. Diaz¹, L. Souza¹, R.G.A. da Silva¹, L.C.S. Goes¹; ¹Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil
Recent advances in electronics and programming have stimulated science and industry to explore aviation projects. These include the ground-effect vehicles for energy-efficient flight near water surfaces. Brazilian startup Aeroriver is developing the Volitan for transportation on the Amazon. In this work, the instrumentation for data acquisition during measurements and flight tests is presented