ST Aero FanTail
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The FanTail is a Vertical Take-off and Landing
(VTOL) Unmanned Air Vehicle developed by ST Aerospace
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A mock-up of the UAV made its first show appearance at Asian Aerospace
2006 in Singapore (21–25 February), along with the smaller original FanTail 3000 VTOL UAV, which has already flown about 100 hours.
VTOL
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
(VTOL) Unmanned Air Vehicle developed by ST Aerospace
ST Aerospace
Singapore Technologies Aerospace is a subsidiary of ST Engineering based in Singapore, with international offices and facilities located in key aviation hubs in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the US...
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A mock-up of the UAV made its first show appearance at Asian Aerospace
Asian Aerospace
Asian Aerospace is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. Currently based in Hong Kong, it was held in Singapore since 1981 until disagreements between co-organisers Reed Exhibitions and Singapore Technologies in 2006 forced its relocation from 2007.-History:Asian Aerospace was...
2006 in Singapore (21–25 February), along with the smaller original FanTail 3000 VTOL UAV, which has already flown about 100 hours.
Models
- FanTail 3000 (Prototype)
- Overall weight: 3 kg
- Payload weight: 0.9 kg
- Overall length: 76 cm
- Rotor diameter: 29 cm
- Width (excluding landing gearUndercarriageThe undercarriage or landing gear in aviation, is the structure that supports an aircraft on the ground and allows it to taxi, takeoff and land...
): - Height(including landing gear):
- Maximum level speed in horizontal position:
- Endurance:
- Operating distance:
- Flight Control:
- Airframe: modular carbon-fibreCarbon fiberCarbon fiber, alternatively graphite fiber, carbon graphite or CF, is a material consisting of fibers about 5–10 μm in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms. The carbon atoms are bonded together in crystals that are more or less aligned parallel to the long axis of the fiber...
composite construction - Powerplant:
- Ground Control: Window notebook-based compact ground control stationGround control stationA ground control station is a land- or sea-based control center that provides the facilities for human control of unmanned vehicles in the air or in space. A GCS could be used to control unmanned aerial vehicles or rockets within or above the atmosphere....
with datalink terminal
- FanTail 5000
- Overall weight: 5.5 kg
- Payload weight: 0.4 kg
- Overall length:
- Rotor diameter: 46 cm
- Width (excluding landing gear): 59 cm
- Height(including landing gear): 115 cm
- Maximum level speed in horizontal position: 60 Knot / 111 km/h
- Endurance: 30 minutes in hover
- Operating distance: 5 km
- Flight Control: pre-programmed autonomous waypoint navigation using GPS
- Airframe: modular carbon-fibre composite construction
- Powerplant: 3.5 hp two-stroke gasoline engineSpark-ignitionThe term spark-ignition engine refers to internal combustion engines, usually petrol engines, where the combustion process of the air-fuel mixture is ignited by a spark from a spark plug...
- Ground Control: Window notebook-based compact ground control station with datalink terminal