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Gearing up for Flight Tests
BAE Systems is exploring technologies destined for use on future unmanned aircraft systems
Engineering apprentices at BAE Systems are giving final touches to an experimental aircraft that will test radical new methods of controlling it in flight.
The demonstrator has been built under a project to explore technologies destined for use on future unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Named Demon, the aircraft is the outcome of a project called flapless air vehicle integrated industrial research (FLAVIIR). It is a five-year programme jointly funded by BAE Systems and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
FLAVIIR brings together 10 universities, led by Cranfield University and BAE Systems. Its major focus is to develop the technologies needed to build a low-cost, low-maintenance UAS with no conventional control surfaces, such as wing flaps and without losing any performance compared to conventional aircraft.
According to company sources, the aircraft is an 80 kg, jet-powered UAS with a wing span of 2.7 metres. It was designed at Cranfield University, with the support of the other partner institutions. Cranfield’s Composite Manufacturing Centre and BAE Systems apprentices are jointly manufacturing and assembling the aircraft.
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