This is the title of our new Wiley-Blackwell book, to be published in October 2017. It is a practical guide to designing, building and flight testing small unmanned aircraft.
It comes with some GNU-licensed software tools, which you are welcome to use!
In an earlier post we talked about constraint analysis using Jupyter notebooks — we believe these to be very useful for constraint analysis for the types of platforms discussed in this book too. There are two notebooks, one written in Python 2, another in Python 3. The notebooks are self-contained, save for one package: Kevin Horton’s Aero-Calc. This needs to be installed first before the notebooks can be run (a version translated into Python 3 can be found here). pip can be used to install the Python 2 version of the package (type pip install aerocalc in a terminal window); the Python 3 version can simply be copied to a folder where your Python installation looks for packages.
It also includes some AirCONICS-based parametric geometry scripts, which will build conceptual/preliminary design models of a family of aircraft based one of the designs (Decode 1) described in the book. Link coming soon…
