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/m^2)	304.3	196.0	137.1	99.8
	0.4004	—^#	0.468	0.3876
(h)	≤0.1	≈2.0	≈1.5	≈3.0

Mission height is not known, while 1 minute vertical flight has been mentioned [5].
^#Data could not be obtained by open literatures.