Diseño y construcción de una plataforma de lanzamiento para la impulsión de un avión no tripulado en el centro de investigación y desarrollo de la Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana “CIDFAE”

Abstract

The Center for Research and Development of the Ecuadorian CIDFAE Air Force created in 1998 has been carrying out projects concerning aeronautical research missions monitoring both civilian and military, one of the most favorable projects the company is prototyping ultralight aircraft handled via radio which have a favorable control and recognition remote areas where land is inaccessible via step solution. Drones UAV have been developed based on the geometry of the aircraft full-scale copying its characteristics both takeoff flight and landing, so that ultralight aircraft should operate in military compounds which possess a track with considerable length for these they can take off easily and continue its mission. Ecuadorian air force due to control problems in border areas has seen the need to operate ultralight aircraft at the border, but because there are no airstrips in these areas or landing has been the need to create systems that drive the airplane in confined spaces, to solve the problem of planes taking off in areas with limited space project aims to design and build a launch pad for driving ultralight aircraft. To start the research project regarding the design was taken as initial parameters the recommendations of the company mentioned, in the same way could gather more information through a foreign company through virtual path it is as UAVs FACTORY Ltda., It is an average fuselage development company unmanned Europe, located in Jaunbridagi, Marupe. [1] Additional information has been used STANAG regulations [2] provided by the company, in the same way in the manufacture of the structure has been made regarding building regulations and based on the local market for the implementation and acquisition of its components. After performing the design and validation of plans by software platform was built and immediately the tests specified in the project was conducted, the results of tests corroborated the design of the structure and the plane tested could break the inertia at the end of the runway of the platform and got a good takeoff.Because of the favorable results obtained it can be concluded that the implementation of a launching pad for manned aircraft does not represent an improvement in handling them since they can take off in limited without a runway space.