15 - Guest lectures
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DEEP STALL LANDING, WITH APPLICATION TO SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
P. Gupta, Australia
We examine design elements that enable a small aircraft to fly in a sustained manner in deep stall conditions. Using first principles, we derive a number of useful pointers and relationships between flight parameters. We present preliminary results from water tunnel tests on a scaled model that lend support to the key assumptions that underpin the design pointers.