Hyperion Blended Wing Body Aircraft Technology

Student engineering teams develop a 3 m scale model inspired after the NASA-Boeing X48-B blended wing body to use as a test bed for advanced technical studies. The design concept implements a novel hybrid gas/biodiesel-electric power train as a green aircraft technology. The Hyperion aircraft will serve as a test-bed for research and development in the following focus areas: aerodynamics, structures and materials, weights and mass properties, handling and control, flight mechanics, and efficiency improvements on performance. additional authors as list is limited to 20: Dries Verstraete, Kai Lehmkuehler, University of Sydney; Ewald Kraemer, University of Stuttgart