The purpose of this paper is to deal with the study of an innovative unmanned mission to Mars, which is aimed at acquiring a great amount of detailed data related to both Mars’ atmosphere and surface. The Mars surface exploration is conceived by means of a fleet of drones flying among a set of reference […]
Unmanned
2 papers presented at the “Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering” Workshop (Erice, Sept. 2010)
The PrandtlPlane Configuration: Overview on Possible Applications to Civil Aviation The term PrandtlPlane indicates an aircraft configuration based on a box-like lifting system in the front view. The PrandtlPlane configuration allows one to conceive many different aircraft for both passenger and freighter aviation, ranging from small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to very large civil aircraft, […]