Engineering:Sunward UAV
Sunward UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Hunan Sunward Co Ltd, (Sunward, 湖南山河科技有限公司), a firm formed in February 2008 by a professor of Tsinghua University as a subsidiary of Sunward Intelligent Equipment Group (山河装备集团) to concentrate on aviation products. Sunward that not only produces UAVs of its own design, but also produce light sport aircraft such as the two-seater Sunward Aurora SA60L and flying boat Ramphos Trident for other firms as their original equipment manufacturer.
SUF-30 Flying Goose
SUF-30 Flying Goose (Fei-Yan or Feiyan, 飞雁) is an UAV of conventional layout designed mainly for aerial survey missions. Proplusion is provided by a two-blade propeller driven by an engine mounted in the nose. SUF-30 Flying Goose is constructed of composite material and has been deployed by Chinese authorities to survey natural disaster affected area, such as those suffer from drought.[1] Specification:[2][3][4]
- Wingspan: 2.26 m
- Wing area: 1.27 m2
- Length: 2.1 m
- Height: 0.66 m
- Flight speed: 80–150 km/h
- Cruise speed: 100–120 km/h
- Remote control radius: 20 km
- Operating temperature: -20 to 60 °C
- Endurance: 2.5–3.5 h
- Empty weight (including fuel): 20 kg
- Max takeoff weight: 28 kg
- Payload: 5–8 kg
- Accuracy: ± 3º
- Launch: taxi or catapult
- Recovery: taxi or parachute
- Unit price: ¥ 800000
SVU-200
SVU-200 Flying Tiger (Fei-Hu or Feihu, 飞虎) is an unmanned helicopter developed by Sunward. The general designer of SVU-200 Flying Tiger is Mr. Dennis Fetters, the founder of Revolution Helicopter Corporation and later Fetters Aerospace LLC after coming out his retirement.[5] SVU-200 Flying Tiger is an upgrade of Star-Lite unmanned helicopter developed by Dennis Fetters and his Fetters Aerospace LLC with various minor improvements and as a result,[6] the two unmanned helicopters look very similar externally, with only minor difference. For example, Fetters Star-Lite lacks the horizontal stabilizer above the tail rotor that is present on SVU-200. Although living in Changsha and working with Sunward for more than two years, Dennis Fetters did not stay with Sunward afterward, but instead, relocated to Wuhan to become chief technology officer of Ewatt Aerospace, another Chinese UAV manufacture, he and his Fetters Aerospace LLC still provide certain degrees of support of SVU-200 program. Specification:[7][8]
- Length: 5.71 m
- Fuselage length: 4.57 m
- Height: 1.68 m
- Main rotor diameter: 4.92 m
- Tail rotor diameter: 0.965 m
- Empty weight: 198 kg
- Max takeoff weight: 360 kg
- Max payload: 120 kg
- Fuel capacity: 40 L (can be expanded into 80 L)
- Max speed: 209 km/h
- Cruise speed: 177 km/h
- Never to exceed speed: 257 km/h
- Range: 460 km
- Endurance: 2.6 h with 40 l of fuel
- Rate of climb: 457 m/min
- Ceiling: 4.2 km
Flying Eagle
Flying Eagle (Fei-Ying or Feiying, 飞鹰) is an UAV developed by Sunward that adopts a design similar to a flying wing. Externally, Flying Eagle resembles a scaledown version of AASI Jetcruzer without the canards. Proplusion is provided by a two-blade propeller driven by a pusher engine installed behind at the end of empennage. Specification:[9]
- Length: 3 m
- Wingspan: 2.74 m
- Height: 0.5 m
- Weight: 55 kg
- Payload: 15 kg
- Remote control radius: 50 km
- Operating altitude: 50–4000 m
- Rate of climb: 19 m/s
- Cruise speed: 320 km/h
- Flight speed: 126–432 km/h
- g overload: 20 g
- Launch: catapult
- Launch speed: 126–152 km/h
- Recovery: parachute
- Noise index: 35 dB @ 35 m
- Vibration idex: 0.12 IPS
- Max wind scale (speed) allowed for operation: 6 (18 m/s)
- Operating temperature: -20 to 55 °C
- Operating relative humidity: 5–95 %
- MTBF: 2160 h
- MTTR: 2.7
- Average maintenance: 15 min for every h in flight
- Deployment: 30 min from storage to airborne
- Recovery: 30 min from landing to storage
- Minimum time between two flights: 20 min
See also
- List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China
- Sunward Aurora
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