Making a Mechanical Manta with Material Memory Manufacturing Methods
The MMR UUV - UAV will also have its own autonomous navigation and terrain following system in case of communication failures or electronic attack, which will be deployed if needed. Once airborne it can act as a communication relay and interact with all satellites, ships, cell towers, wireless military technologies, AWACS, Aircraft and other UAVs. The balloon system will operate in a similar fashion to the Georgia Tech Graduate Student's concept depicted here. The back-up secondary system will be in a carbon nano-tube constructed EA secure preventative casing. The manta ray will have air tanks inside of its wings and a sound device, which will also operate a sonar and an ELF communication system.
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Material Memory and NASA High Tech Plastics for Rotor Blades
I propose manufacturing these poly plastic blades for smaller UAV craft. Material memory manufacturing with new high-tech NASA plastics will significantly increase performance characteristics and flight agility in future aerospace designs and we should definitely be thinking here and make use of these new materials to serve our needs. By using this technique we could increase the take off weight and allow the UAV VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Helicopter to move quickly into position and then hover for much longer periods of time without using up all its fuel in route, thus allowing it an increased range for use in Natural Disasters, wartime, search and rescue, surveillance or commercial applications. This would allow the rotor blades made out of this new plastic material to change shape. Since they are made of polymer plastic blends it will be possible to add in some material memory manufacturing in the process.
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Tactile Strip Sensors on Leading Edge of Material Memory Airfoils
Additionally a UAV could remain loitering in the battlespace for hours after taking off from a short runway or carrier and then accelerating to a fast speed and then slowing down to STOL type speeds and then speed away or evade when completed. Currently robotics teams have tactile sensors so the robots will not crush the item they are picking up, they do this by measuring the pressure on the object. We should take this technology and apply it to the leading edge of aircraft wings to help us improve and enhance the performance without compromising the aircraft's abilities for STOL or higher True Air Speeds (TAS. Aircraft, which are cargo transports rely on STOL Capabilities and once airborne must conserve fuel and increase range for efficiency. A JSF could land at 60 kts and still fly at 2.
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Static Electricity to Flap UAV Material Memory Wings
Think on this, because you will not be alone in those thoughts. All birds have very strong muscles, which flap their wings, we can make such a muscle out of polymer to do the same thing and then find the already known best ratio of flapping to airspeed and design this into the zapping propulsion system that we created. By using the static electricity from the wings traveling through the air it maybe possible to use the energy to provide an Electromagnetic Pulse moving Material Memory Wings on a UAV? This means it will Flap along and take some of the energy it used to fly through the air and re-use that same energy to flap its wings to remain airborne. Then it immediately wishes to go back to its normal shape. When an aircraft flies through the air it trades electrons due to the friction it creates.
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Diamond Twinstar
The slow airspeed characteristics are great and low stall speed range is certainly a plus. Since the aircraft is all-composite, it is light and fast. Although it looks like a twin trainer, yet a little racier it is not intended for training, however the price is quite attractive if you are comparing it to any new modern day high-performance single engine aircraft and you get the safety of two-engines. The new four-seater twin has retractable landing gear and will cruise at 18,000 feet on 11. The Twinstar is propelled by twin diesel engines which burn Jet A or even conventional diesel fuel.
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General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse
India is also manufacturing UAVs with large factories going up as we speak. Just as Airbus was able to take over 50% of the market share from Boeing after the MacDonald Douglas merger, India will take it's chunk of the UAV and private plane market and eventually divide further the airliner manufacturing sector. This means if we have to import raw materials to compete, we pay those shipping costs too and as the price is passed on for the over regulation in every industry we are finding we are our own worst enemy. In America we no longer mine our own raw materials, Iron Ore mines cannot stay in business due to regulations and restrictions, same goes for Gold Mines, Copper, etc. The franchising industry is completely over regulated as well.
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Automated Satellite Following System for UAV Swarms
Each drone UAV will fly its line on the grid using an offset AFF. Much work is being done and the USAF has implemented systems to fly UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in ah hoc formations like swarms of insects or flock of birds. All other UAVs will be controlled thru that data and by satellite in grid formations every half to three miles. I propose keeping this task of swarming UAVs simple. It is time to take these technologies into the battlespace and try them out and use what we learn to help us monitor forces of nature, grid out the surface of other planets and provide protection and security to the free world.
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