Brief History and Prospect of Typical Morphing Aircraft
Morphing aircraft is widely considered as an revolution for designing and operating aero-vehicles and has been hot researched from the last decade. However, most types of morphing aircraft are not brand new concepts, and some even have a history of more than 90 years. As active technologies developing dramatically, many talented ideas of morphing aircraft will be realized in the 21st century and will be applied to different types of aircraft. The paper briefly reviews the evolutionary history of three kinds of typical morphing aircraft, which shows most modern morphing aicraft concepts are originated from existing aircraft. The paper also discusses the relationship of morphing aircraft and UAVs, which reveals that UAV may be a suitable platform to demonstrate relevant morphing technologies but it is not the only potential of morphing aircraft. On the basis of analyzing the relationship between morphing concepts and aircraft types, some application examples of morphing aircraft are illustrated.
morphing aircraft evolutionary history potential application
Li Shitu Ai Junqiang
Department of Aircraft Design, First Aircraft Institute of AVIC, P.O.Box 72-301, Xian 710089,China Chief Designer Office, First Aircraft Institute of AVIC, P.O.Box 72-102,Xian 710089,China
国际会议
2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology(2010 亚太航空航天技术研讨会 APISAT 2010)
西安
英文
120-123
2010-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）