...Jakub Kuliberda; Agnieszka Kwiek Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determination of loads in the case of an unconventional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) design. This study was conducted for a small tailless UAV. Load limits were defined through flight simulations and compared...

... lowering of the cost of the needed modifications regarding the tooling. Moreover, it also aims to estimate the performance that can be achieved through such modifications. Design/methodology/approach The concept of a master load envelope was applied to facilitate the definition of the airframe parts...

... to compute loads and to perform the structural sizing. Design/methodology/approach The modules developed until now allow for the definition of multi-fidelity aero-structural models starting from a Common Parametric Aircraft Configuration Schema (CPACS) input file and to compute static loads (trim...