Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 94 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Spyros Pantelakis, Andreas Strohmayer, Liberata Guadagno

Tactical runway scheduling for demand and delay management

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Rosa Maria M. Arnaldo Valdes, Javier A. Pérez-Castán, Pablo López Cózar, Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador

Airports are limited in terms of capacity. Particularly, runways can only accommodate a certain number of movements (arrivals and departures) while ensuring safety and determined…

Airspace design for integrating RPAS into terminal airspace

Monica Arranz Moneo, Javier Alberto Pérez-Castán, Victor Fernando Gomez Comendador, Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Rosa María Arnaldo Valdes

This paper aims to analyse remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) integration in non-segregated terminal airspace. This work aims to identify the potential airspace volumes where…

Aerodynamic design and optimization of propellers for multirotor

Witold Artur Klimczyk

This paper aims to present a methodology of designing a custom propeller for specified needs. The example of propeller design for large unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is considered.

Sensors for UAVs dedicated to agriculture: current scenarios and challenges

Cezary Jerzy Szczepanski, Raja Purushothaman

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) entered into their development stage when different applications became real. One of those application areas is agriculture. Agriculture and…

Review and selection of commercially available IMU for a short time inertial navigation

Krystian Borodacz, Cezary Szczepański, Stanisław Popowski

The selection of a suitable inertial measurement unit (IMU) is a critical step in an inertial navigation system (INS) design. Nevertheless, inertial sensors manufacturers are…

Impact of weather conditions on airport arrival delay and throughput

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Javier Cano, Beatriz Rubio Fernández

Weather events have a significant impact on airport arrival performance and may cause delays in operations and/or constraints in airport capacity. In Europe, almost half of all…

A new simplified fluid dynamic model for digital twins of electrohydraulic servovalves

Matteo Davide Lorenzo Dalla Vedova, Pier Carlo Berri

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new simplified numerical model, based on a very compact semi-empirical formulation, able to simulate the fluid dynamics behaviors of an…

Application of the contact and non-contact measuring techniques for on-ground resonance testing of the mini-UAV

Aleksander Olejnik, Robert Rogólski, Michał Szcześniak

The paper describes the application of two different vibration measurement methods for the identification of natural modes of the miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The…

Studying the deployment of high-lift devices by using dynamic immersed boundaries

Francesco Capizzano, Triyantono Sucipto

This paper aims to describe a research effort towards the comprehension of the unsteady phenomena due to the deployment of high-lift devices at approach/landing conditions.

An energy-autonomous UAV swarm concept to support sea-rescue and maritime patrol missions in the Mediterranean sea

Franz-Michael Sendner

For the crews and assets of the European Union’s (EU’s) Joint Operations available today, but a vast area in the Mediterranean Sea to monitor, detection of small boats and rafts…