Piolin's First Flight - NCSU Aerospace Senior Design 08-09

North Carolina State University, Aerospace Senior Design 2008-2009
Piolin's First Flight, March 17, 2009

The premise of this year's senior design project was the design, construction and flight testing of a small, electric-powered UAS that is simple to manufacture and field deployable by a two person strike team. The aircraft must be capable of being disassembled and packed into a box with an internal volume of 1.5 cubic feet.

This video covers the entire first flight of Piolin. Flight testing items for the sortie included:
-Launch, climb to pattern altitude and initial aircraft trim
-High cruise speed (~60 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Cruise speed (~46 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Loiter speed (~34 mph), trim aircraft, elevator doublets and rudder pulses
-Power off, establish safe approach pattern, elevator doublet, rudder pulses, aileron doublets
-Full power, regain altitude, reduce throttle to cruise, power off and maintain altitude until stall
-Approach pattern upon recovering stall, power off approach and landing

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NCSU
• Aerospace
• Senior
• Design

[aerowolf86girl]

I'm so proud, Jeff! And I know who spent all the hours working away!!

[Mik3Easter]

Ooo, "strike team." Nice job!

[Jbanicar]

Excellent job!

[KilianStudio]

Go Jeff! - nice landing!

I would like mine with smoke trail capability sent in a USPS priority box ! -