Publication detail

Airliner-UAV Flight Formation in Climb Regime

ZIKMUND, P. POPELA, R.

Original Title

Airliner-UAV Flight Formation in Climb Regime

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Extreme formation is a theoretical concept of selfsustain flight when a big airliner is followed by a small UAV glider flying in the airliner wake vortex. The paper presents results of a climb analysis with the goal to lift the gliding UAV to airliners cruise altitude.

Keywords

Flight in formation; self-sustained flight; UAV; wake vortex

Authors

ZIKMUND, P.; POPELA, R.

RIV year

2015

Released

29. 10. 2015

Publisher

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Location

Paris, France

ISBN

1307-6892

Periodical

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Year of study

9

Number

10

State

Republic of Turkey

Pages from

631

Pages to

636

Pages count

6

URL

http://goo.gl/n75IXX

BibTex

@article{BUT117958,
  author="Pavel {Zikmund} and Robert {Popela}",
  title="Airliner-UAV Flight Formation in Climb Regime",
  journal="World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology",
  year="2015",
  volume="9",
  number="10",
  pages="631--636",
  issn="1307-6892",
  url="http://goo.gl/n75IXX"
}