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Author:

Volpe, Marc

Title:

Design, Development, and Field Testing of the GlacierHawk: an Unmanned Aerial System for Geoscience Data Retrieval

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Unmanned Aerial System
glaciology
geoscience
aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
flight
Greenland
Helheim
glacier
geoPebble
sensor

File:

Download MarcVolpe-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member

Author:

Reddington, Jacob

Title:

Design, Development, and Tuning of a Gimbaled Coaxial UAV

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aircraft design
aerospace engineering
rotorcraft
co-axial tilting-head rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
flight test

File:

Download Design__Development__and_Tuning_of_a_Gimbaled_Coaxial_UAV_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Purzak, Jake

Title:

Structural Design of a Rigid Coaxial Rotor System for Wind Tunnel Testing

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

rotorcraft
coaxial
structural design
structural analysis
dragonfly
rotor design
rigid rotor
coaxial test system
wind tunnel test system

File:

Download PurzakJake_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member