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Landing Gear Design for Blended Wing Body Flight Test Demonstrators.
Rel. Marco Gherlone. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2018
Abstract
The Blended Wing Body (BWB) configuration is a hybrid shape with unique features capable to take benefits from both flying wing and conventional aircraft. The poof of an unconventional concept configuration requires flight tests and validation on small Flight Test Demonstrators, avoiding cost and risk related to the use of a full scale model. A first 7% scaled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for a new generation BWB aircraft, has been designed and flight tested at the Center for Aerospace Research (CfAR), operating on unprepared grass runways (GRS). The need to evaluate the UAV, fully controlled with an autopilot, even in the critical phases of take-off and landing on concrete runways (CON), has required the design and integration of an undercarriage system.
One of the main goals of the present thesis work is to carry out the design and development of a landing gear for FTV7%, including the integration of the system into the aircraft, ground testing and mock-ups preparation for a wheeled flight test campaign
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