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Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

A Practical Approach

By: Andrew J. Keane,András Sóbester,James P. Scanlan

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Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

A Practical Approach

By: Andrew J. Keane,András Sóbester,James P. Scanlan

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design is the essential guide to designing, building and testing fixed wing UAVs (or drones). It deals with aircraft from two to 150 kg in weight and is based on the first-hand experiences of the world renowned UAV team at the UK’s University of Southampton. The book covers both the practical aspects of designing, manufacturing and flight testing and outlines and the essential calculations needed to underpin successful designs. It describes the entire process of UAV design from requirements definition to configuration layout and sizing, through preliminary design and analysis using simple panel codes and spreadsheets to full CFD and FEA models and on to detailed design with parametric CAD tools. Its focus is on modest cost approaches that draw heavily on the latest digital design and manufacturing methods, including a strong emphasis on utilizing off-the-shelf components, low cost analysis, automated geometry modelling and 3D printing. It deliberately avoids a deep theoretical coverage of aerodynamics or structural mechanics; rather it provides a design team with sufficient insights and guidance to get the essentials undertaken more pragmatically. The book contains many all-colour illustrations of the dozens of aircraft built by the authors and their students over the last ten years giving much detailed information on what works best. It is predominantly aimed at under-graduate and MSc level student design and build projects, but will be of interest to anyone engaged in the practical problems of getting quite complex unmanned aircraft flying. It should also appeal to the more sophisticated aero-modeller and those engaged on research based around fixed wing UAVs.

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492

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119406323

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9781119406327

Technology, Culture and Development

The Experience of the Soviet Model

By: James P. Scanlan

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Technology, Culture and Development

The Experience of the Soviet Model

By: James P. Scanlan

Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former satellites. It then looks at the economic environment for technological innovation and examines the impact of the "energy shock" in the transitional economies of the region. Finally, it discusses the ecological devastation of the USSR and Eastern Europe, its connection with the "Soviet model" and the prospects for remediation. The central argument of the book is that the cultural and social factors and the legacy of the Soviet model will inevitable figure in the reconstruction of the East.

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215

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Routledge

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1315487519

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9781315487519

Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

By: James P. Scanlan

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Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

By: James P. Scanlan

An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole.

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282

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Routledge

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1315483513

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9781315483511

Dostoevsky the Thinker

By: James Patrick Scanlan

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Dostoevsky the Thinker

By: James Patrick Scanlan

For all his distance from philosophy, Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. Drawing on his novels, essays, letters and notebooks, this volume examines Dostoevsky's philosophical thought.

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Cornell University Press

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0801439949

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9780801439940

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Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

Technology, Culture and Development

Technology, Culture and Development

Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

Dostoevsky the Thinker

Dostoevsky the Thinker

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