By hybrid aircraft, we mean a UAV that can vertically take-off, land and hover like a helicopter, and meanwhile can be converted to a fixed wing airplane to achieve high forward speed and long endurance than normal helicopters. This paper presents our recent work on control of a novel small scale hybrid aircraft. The proposed aircraft should follow a specific trend of trajectory to be able to c...

Fuel transfers are used in aircrafts for the control of the COG position. This is essential for stability and operational performance. This paper deals with the modelling and simulation of the fuel transfers in a generic airplane. The model is established using Simulink, for an easy adaptation to specific airplane cases. Simulations are useful to study COG control strategies, and operational re...

Future space missions may have a requirement for critical distance judgements in performing rendezvous, docking and landing procedures. Since correlation between visual acuity and depth perception is high, depth perception might be adversely affected by transient weightlessness. The experiments reported here were conducted in a zero-G airplane to test the hypothesis, and, although the transitio...

Wireless connectivity in airplanes is becoming more important, demanded, and common. One of the largest bottlenecks with in-flight Internet that airplane far away from both satellites ground base stations during most flight time. Maintaining a reliable high-rate wireless connection over such long-range link thus becomes challenge. Microwave frequencies allow for long distances but lack data rat...