Research Article
Preliminary Design of a Small Unmanned Battery Powered Tailsitter
Table 2
Parameters and performances of four battery powered UAVs.
| Items | E-T-wing | ITU-Tailsitter | TURAC | ITU-Tailless |
| Takeoff | VTOL | VTOL | VTOL | CTOL | (kg) | 22.72 | 10.0 | 47.0 | 7.74 | (kg) | 1.8 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 1.3 | (m) | 1 min† | 1000 | 1000 | 250 | AR | 6.47 | 5.78 | 5.25 | 8.89 | | 0.048 | —# | 0.0266 | 0.033 | (N/m2) | 304.3 | 196.0 | 137.1 | 99.8 | | 0.4004 | —# | 0.468 | 0.3876 | (h) | ≤0.1 | ≈2.0 | ≈1.5 | ≈3.0 |
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Mission height is not known, while 1 minute vertical flight has been mentioned [5]. #Data could not be obtained by open literatures.
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