META Project: Construction, Validation, and Flight Testing of a New META Aircraft Design

Author

William Andrew Wearren, University of South AlabamaFollow

Date of Award

5-2024

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Degree Name

BS

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Mentor

Carlos Montalvo

Advisor(s)

Joseph Richardson, Robert Cloutier

Abstract

Meta aircraft are a type of aircraft that can connect via wingtip, nose-to-tail, or both wingtip and nose-to-tail in order to create a lattice of aircraft that can fly together to a site, detach, survey different areas, and then reattach for flight back to the main base. The project started at the Georgia Institute of Technology with Dr. Carlos Montalvo and is being continued at the University of South Alabama Facility for Aerospace Systems and Technology Lab. This paper seeks to theoretically verify the new aircraft design for the META project, complete the development of the design, and to experimentally test the design for validation for future development of the project.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Wearren, William Andrew, "META Project: Construction, Validation, and Flight Testing of a New META Aircraft Design" (2024). Honors Theses. 66.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/honors_college_theses/66