Alvarenga J., Vitzilaios Nikos I., Valavanis Kimon P., Rutherford Matthew J. — University of Denver, 2014. — 95 p. Over the past decades, there has been an increasing interest in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with autonomous capabilities for use in military and civilian applications. UAS include two basic vehicle con gurations, xed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and...
Cranbrook, UK: Endeavour Media Ltd, 2018. — 193 p. “The dream of flight is as old as the mind of man...” So begins Robert Jackson’s incredible book on the history of helicopters. It’s an epic tale that begins in the 4th Century B.C. and travels to ancient Greek physicists and great thinkers like Da Vinci. With dreams of fantastical flying machines that either soared...
Springer, 2013. — 190 p. "Quad Rotorcraft Control" develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors to localize and guide the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle relative to its immediate environment. The...
ABC-CLIO, 2005. — 368 p. — ISBN: 1851094687. Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the development of helicopters from a concept in Leonardo daVinci's mind to the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest tilt-rotor designs. Time and again, in a story of constant innovation, designers answered the concerns of military planners with more...
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2010. — 50 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84603-953-9. With its distinctive double-cockpit design, the Mi-24 'Hind' is arguably the most recognizable war machine of the Cold War, and has achieved near-legendary status in the annals of military history. The first Soviet helicopter to function as both a gunship and an assault transport, it served extensively in...
Aerofax Minigraph 27, 1989. — 56p. — ISBN: 13: 9780942548426. If there is to be a rotary-winged equivalent of the immortal DC-3, the Boeing Helicopters (Vertol) Chinook is on the very short list of contenders. It's a proven hauler of extraordinary merit, it shows designs of aging, and its capabilities almost certainly will Justify continued production for many years to come....
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