Maritime flight trials of the Southampton University laser sintered aircraft – Project Albatross

As part of the ongoing development of small unmanned air systems by the University of Southampton, an all laser sintered aircraft has been test flown from the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Protector to assist with navigating through the Antarctic. These flights were carried out with pre-plan...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Aeronautical Journal
Main Authors: Keane, Andrew, Scanlan, James, Lock, Andrew, Ferraro, Mario, Spillane, Paul, Breen, John
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Antarctic
Protector
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411713/
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411713/1/Albatross_final.pdf
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Summary:As part of the ongoing development of small unmanned air systems by the University of Southampton, an all laser sintered aircraft has been test flown from the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Protector to assist with navigating through the Antarctic. These flights were carried out with pre-planned autopilot control with oversight from Andrew Lock, acting as the pilot embarked on HMS Protector. This is the first time the Royal Navy has used unmanned aerial vehicles in this part of the world. In this paper, we set out the trial reports and lessons learnt from this series of test flights.

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