Airdrop of Discharged Batteries Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle as a Method of Increasing the Range of an Electric Aircraft by Reducing the Mass in Flight

Oleg S. Dolgov ； Boris B. Safoklov ； Sergey Aruvelli

《Journal of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Aviation》 53卷2期 Vol.53 No.2 ISSA 2020 Special Issue (2021/06) Pp. 235-239

https://doi.org/10.6125/JoAAA.202106_53(2).15

摘要

Over the past few years, a large number of developments devoted to electric motors and electric aircraft. However, electric aircraft have some limitations and disadvantages. One of which is the invariability of the mass of the aircraft during the flight, which reduces the possible aircraft range. In this paper, was developed a method of increasing the electric aircraft range by an airdrop of batteries placed in containers that are designed as a flying-wing unmanned aerial vehicle.

關鍵字

Electric aircraft ； Increasing the aircraft range ； Batteries airdrop ； Unmanned aerial vehicle

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