Devan Rudolph

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For aircraft without vertical stabilizers (rudders), what else can be used to provide directional control and stability?

i am designing an aircraft with no vertical stabilizer...i will use thrust differential on two wing mounted engines to provide yawing motion. However, i am concerned about a single engine failure...

06 December 2020 220 4 View

What sensors are typically placed on aircraft, especially experimental?

In addition to sensors such as load cells, prandtl tubes, pitot tubes, which other sensors are put on experimental aircraft

20 November 2020 7,100 3 View

How can a tailless tiltwing aircraft be balanced ?

How can a tailless tiltwing aircraft be balanced when the location of the center of gravity is located slightly below and aft of the aerodynamic center? How can such a cg placement be analytically...

05 November 2020 1,414 5 View

How best can i obtain the 'P' parameter for a PID controller to be used on tiltwing UAV?

For the tiltwing UAV which i am currently designing, i am going to use a PID controller which i will develop in MATLAB. I want to determine the most optimum value for the 'P' parameter...

02 November 2020 7,441 7 View

How best can the transition flight mode quality of a tiltwing aircraft be handled in both design and simulation?

I am currently designing a tiltwing aircraft. Designed in solidworks and remodeled in X-plane flight simulator for flight tests. During transition flights from hover to forward flights I am...

07 October 2020 9,527 4 View