板倉, 嘉哉

Itakura, Yoshiya

Aerodynamics

無尾翼機

Tail-less Plane

飛行性能

Performance

安定性

Stability

Mowe is a fictional flying vehicle appeared in the animated cartoon "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind". The airframe configuration of Mowe is very unique without vertical and horizontal tail, and its main wing is only equipped with flaperon as a pitch and roll control surface. However, to realize a tail-less plane such as the Mowe, detailed consideration about the aerodynamic configuration is needed from a viewpoint of aeronautical engineering. In this paper, in order to obtain aeronautical characteristics, aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the scale model with deflectable flaperon were measured experimentally by using wind tunnel at Chiba University. And we also estimated aerodynamic performance and stability based on a result from wind tunnel testing and considered realization of the flight.