Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 91 Issue 5

Publisher note from Stephanie Hull

Guest editorial

Assessment of a small UAV speed polar graph by conducting flight tests

Adam Tomaszewski, Zdobyslaw Jan Goraj

The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to a polar graph measurement by a flight testing technique and to propose a baseline research method for future tests of UAV…

Innovative time-based separation procedures for civil RPAS integration

Roberta Fusaro, Nicole Viola, Sara Cresto Aleina, Giovanni Antonio Di Meo

This paper aims to suggest feasible solutions to overcome the problem of unmanned aerial vehicles integration within the existing airspace.

Hybrid energy systems in unmanned aerial vehicles

Anna Maria Mazur, Roman Domanski

The presented research is carried out in reaction to the soaring costs of fuel and tight control over environmental issues such as carbon dioxide emissions and noise. The purpose…

Performance improvement of helicopter rotors through blade redesigning

Wienczyslaw Stalewski, Wieslaw Zalewski

The purpose of this paper is to determine dependencies between a rotor-blade shape and a rotor performance as well as to search for optimal shapes of blades dedicated for…

Preliminary design of 3D printed fittings for UAV

Jacek Mieloszyk, Andrzej Tarnowski, Michal Kowalik, Rafal Perz, Witold Rzadkowski

Additive manufacturing technology, also commonly called as 3D printing technology, is entering rapidly into the aerospace world and seems to be its future. Many manufacturing…

4D-trajectory time windows: definition and uncertainty management

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Fernando Gómez Comendador, Rosa M. Arnaldo Valdés, Javier A. Pérez-Castán, Pablo González García, Mar Najar Godoy Najar Godoy

The use of the 4D trajectory operational concept in the future air traffic management (ATM) system will require the aircraft to meet very accurately an arrival time over a…

Control and monitoring assistant for pilot

Jacek Pieniazek

Cooperation of a pilot with an automated aircraft control and monitoring systems is a problem which should be solved designing the whole system. The method of design, which…

Less-skilled pilot decision support

Jozsef Rohacs, Istvan Jankovics, Daniel Rohacs

The purpose of this paper is to overview the systems and their elements developing for supporting the less-skilled pi-lots.