Fixed-wing aircraft

Paper planes Will more weight of the paper airplane affect how far it flies. Throwing paper plane. How paper planes get affected in the air. How to make paper planes fly better. If I put more weight on the paper plane than it won’t fly as far. How to throw the paper airplane better. The way you throw the paper plane will affect the flight of the plane. Don’t throw it too hard, but also not too soft, throw it almost like a football. Throwing the paper plane up at 15-degree angle to make it fly…

The trim button in the F-4 was constantly used by the pilot to change the artificial feel of the system as the speed of the aircraft changed, for example. This reduced the required physical pressure that the pilot had to apply to the stick; thereby reducing the pilot’s physical fatigue…

Did you know parachutes come in all kinds of different shapes? The shapes vary from circles to triangles. However which one is the fastest? There are many factors that effect the speed of parachutes. Kinetic and potential, for example, influence the parachutes speed and movement. When a skydiver jumps out of an airplane gravity pulls him towards the ground and he doesn’t have enough air resistance to safety land on the ground. That’s where the parachute comes in! When the skydiver pulls the…

Ornithopter The Human-Power Ornithopter, a wing-flapping device, was designed in 1485 with the intent to fly. However, there is no evidence that he attempted to build the machine, but his ideas of human powered flight device followed for the next several hundred years. His inspiration came from birds or bats, which lead to the two-wing device feature. The wingspan exceeded 33 feet and the frame consisted of pine covered in raw silk, which is light but sturdy. The pilot, laying down in the…

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 What is aerofoil? Aerofoil is a large stucture which is attached to the airplane. It has curved surfaces designed to give required ratio of lift and drag. It helps to create different aeodynamic forces. The force perpendicular to the motion of aeofoil is lift force. The force parallel to the motion of aerofoil is drag force. 1.2 How it works? Aerofoil consists of following components: • Suction surface • Pressure surface • Leading edge • Tailing edge •…

reasons for such an arrangement.“ 2.1.1 Wave Drag This type of drag is formed as a result of shock waves formed around an aircraft. Wave drag is the main reason behind the designing of oblique wings. This design has been found to reduce wave drag for a supersonic aircraft and can be believed as an aerodynamic evolution to swept wings on symmetric aircraft configurations. This wing is not symmetric at supersonic speeds, but rotates about a central pivot, which allows the maximum cross sectional…

diagonal line). This creates lift because air blowing up to the wing bounces off, pushing the wing up. This is the reason why if you stick your hand out of the window of a fast moving car, your hand moves up, which is lift. The second reason is Bernoulli's Principle. As seen is F3, the principle says that if there is an increase in velocity (speed) on the top of the wing, there will be less pressure on the top too, lifting the wing up. For example, if you blow really hard on top of a piece of…

I see the future of UAS in every home serving as an aerial personal assistant. UAS can be designed to help persons out with a multitude of tasks around the house. For example, say you are running late to work and on your way out the door, you forget your briefcase. A UAS could be used to retrieve the briefcase and fly it to your place of work. UAS could also be used to take on more serious roles around the house such as mobile security and monitoring. Many people like enjoy the sport of running…

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), more commonly called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), or Drones are aircrafts with no pilots on board. They can fly using remote controls or pre-programmed flight plans (UAV Staff). They can be remote controlled for short or long ranges of time (Staff on Friends Committee on National Legislation). UAVs range on sizes from less than a pound to over 40,000 pounds (UAV Staff). Each UAV can stay in the sky for up to seventeen hours. They send back images of…

Everglades Search and Rescue (SAR) in the Florida Everglades provides a unique challenge due to the remote location and operations can often only be attempted by boat or aircraft. A suitable replacement for manned aircraft in these search and rescue operations could be a quad rotor unmanned aerial system (UAS). Manned aircraft, whether fixed wing or helicopters, are expensive to fly and maintain. A fleet of small quad rotor UAS equipped with a SAR specific sensor loadout, could be carried on…