• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.64-76
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• 2011

The current development trend and status of a personal air vehicle, known as the novel concept of a transportation that combines a personal car with a light general aviation aircraft, is summarized to investigate its feasibility as a future transportation. In the paper, the development programs of a personal air vehicle such as AGATE, PAVE, SATS and NGATS are first summarized, and then the design, technical development and testing activities of Terrafugia's Transition and Moller International's M400 Skycar, which will be commercialized in a short time, are reviewed. Based on the assessment of technical issues with those vehicles, the key technologies for the future development of the personal air vehicle are suggested with two basic requirements of safety and mobility.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.64-71
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• 2018

Utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly expanding to various fields ranging from defense, industry, entertainment and personal hobbies. Due to the increased activities of unmanned airplanes, many security problems have emerged, including flight path errors to undesired destinations, secondary threats due to exposed securities caused by the capture of unmanned airplanes in hostile countries. In this paper, we find security vulnerabilities in UAVs such as GPS spoofing, hacking captured video information, malfunction due to signal attenuation through jamming, and exposure of personal information due to image shooting. In order to solve this problem, the stability of the unstructured data is secured by setting the encryption of the video shooting information section using the virtual private network (VPN) to prevent the GPS spoofing attack. In addition, data integrity was ensured by applying personal information encryption and masking techniques to minimize the secondary damage caused by exposure of the UAV and to secure safety. It is expected that it will contribute to the safe use and stimulation of industry in the application field of UAV currently growing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.859-870
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• 2021

KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) is developing a design framework for the concept and preliminary design of eVTOL aircrafts. A low fidelity mission analysis tool was developed for the eVTOL aircrafts of Lift-Tilt Concept, which have tilt propellers and lift propellers, using open source SUAVE package. For its development, a review for the propeller performance analysis functionality was made. To find the trim solution at each mission segment automatically, an algorithm is implemented, using a global optimization technique through parallel processings and DOE(design of experiment). Using the tool, the one seated eVTOL OPPAV(optionally piloted personal air vehicle) was modeled and evaluated, which results were compared with the preliminary design data.

• The Journal of Aerospace Industry
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• s.70
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• pp.70-93
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• 2008

산업의 고도화에 따라 시간을 절약하고 공간을 활용하기 위한 방법으로서, 보다 큰 항공기, 보다 빠른 항공기에 대한 요구가 꾸준히 제기된다. 최근 불거진 지구온난화에 대한 이슈는 모든 산업의 초점을 친환경으로 돌려고 있어서, 항공기산업의 경우에도 예외 없이 보다 친환경적이고, 연료 효율적인 항공기개발에 집중하고 있다. 또한, 과거에 비해 자유의지가 강조되는 현재에는 보다 이용이 간편한 개인용 항공기의 출현이 요구되고 있어 이 분야에 대한 연구도 활발히 진행 중이다. 이에 따라 많은 국가들이 각각의 요구에 따라 초대형여객기(VLCT), 차세대 초음속여객기(HSCT), 그린항공기, 개인 자가용 항공기(PAV) 등의 형태로 개발을 서두르고 있으며, 일부 분야는 이미 상용화를 눈앞에 두고 있다. 특히 PAV의 수요는 향후에 자동차 시장의 일부를 대체할 것으로 예상되는 만큼 선진국들은 수요자의 요구에 따라 발 빠르게 대응하여 PAV에 대한 투자를 아끼지 않고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 미래형 항공교통수단의 개발전망과 동향을 분석함으로써 앞으로 우리나라 항공기산업의 발전방향에 대한 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 특히 틈새 시장으로서의 PAV 분야의 개발동향과 전망을 살펴봄으로써, 동 분야에 대한 연구개발과 투자를 통한 우리나라 항공기산업의 발전기회를 모색해 보고자 하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.73-84
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• 2020

To overcome ground congestions due to growing number of cars, a lot of companies have proposed personal aerial vehicle (PAV). Among PAV, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts capable of vertical take-off and landing with electric power are drawing attention, and their configurations vary from multicopters to tilt ducted fans. This study tries to analyze the characteristics of each eVTOL design configurations. Parasite drag was calculated using component build up method for Vahana, Aurora, Volocopter representing each eVTOL PAV type of tilt-wing, compound, and multicopter. Wetted area and induced drag was calculated using OpenVSP and XFLR5 that are aircraft design and aerodynamic analysis software. The batteries used in the eVTOL PAV was assumed as Tesla 2170 batteries and flight ranges were calculated. Also, energy consumption and maximum flight time for the given mission profile including take-off and landing, cruising segments were compared for each eVTOL.

• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.135-161
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• 2014

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone and also referred to as an unpiloted aerial vehicle and a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. ICAO classify unmanned aircraft into two types under Circular 328 AN/190. Unmanned aircraft, which is the core of the development of the aviation industry. However, there are also elements of the legal dispute. Unmanned aircraft are manufactured in small size, it is possible to shoot a record peripheral routes stored in high-performance cameras and sensors without the consent of the citizens, there is a risk of invasion of privacy. In addition, the occurrence of the people of invasion of privacy is expected to use of civilian unmanned aircraft. If the exposure of private life that people did not want for unmanned aircraft has occurred, may occur liability to the operator of unmanned aircraft, this is a factor to be taken into account for the development of unmanned aircraft industry. In the United States, which is currently led by the unmanned aircraft industry, policy related to unmanned aircraft, invasion of privacy is under development, is preparing an efficient measures making. Unmanned aircraft special law has not been enforced. So there is a need for legal measures based on infringement of privacy by the unmanned aircraft. US was presented Privacy Protection Act of unmanned aircraft (draft). However Korea has many laws have been enacted, to enact a new law, but will be able to harm the legal stability, there is a need for the enactment of laws for public safety of life. Although in force Personal Information Protection Law, unmanned aerospace, when the invasion of privacy occurs, it is difficult to apply the Personal Information Protection Law. So, it was presented a privacy protection bill with infringement of privacy of unmanned aircraft in the reference US legislation and the Personal Information Protection Act.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.72-79
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• 2021

In this study, as part of the development of an autonomous flying personal aircraft, an equivalent model of the main wing assembly of an Optionally Piloted Personal Air Vehicle (OPPAV) was developed. Reliability of the developed equivalent model was verified by eigenvalue analysis. The main wing assembly consisted of a main wing, an inboard pod, and an outboard pod. First, for developing an equivalent model of each component, components to produce the equivalent model were divided into several sections. Nodes were then created on the axis of the equivalent model at both ends of each section. In addition, static analysis with unit force and unit moment was performed to calculate the deformation or the amount of rotation at the node to be used in the equivalent model. Equivalent axial, bending, and torsional stiffness of each section were calculated by applying the beam theory. Once the equivalent stiffness of each section was calculated, information of a mass and moment of inertia for each section was entered by creating a lumped mass in the center of each section. An equivalent model was developed using beam element. Finally, the reliability of the developed equivalent model was verified by comparison with results of mode analysis of the fine model.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.83-89
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• 2020

Personal air vehicle (PAV) is considered by aviation engineers as a solution to provide fast urban mobility. The purpose of designing a optionally piloted PAV (OPPAV) is to provide an individual air vehicle. The airframe structure is designed with high strength carbon fiber composite to reduce the aircraft weight. This paper presents an overview of sizing process for OPPAV at the conceptual design level. It consists of load analysis, structural sizing and development of efficient design allowable values for composite material. The weight is estimated based on sizing process, including strength and stiffness requirements. The objective of this study is to present a overview of structural sizing procedure and fast tool for preliminary design phases.

• Defense and Technology
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• no.6 s.172
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• pp.58-63
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• 1993

개인 휴대용 방공 무기체계의 야전배치는 항공기 및 헬기에 대한 자체방어 능력을 강화시켜 줍니다 제3세대 가시선 통제 유도 시스템의 휴대용 미사일은 다른 화기나, 현재 운용중인 적외선 유도미사일보다 가격이 저렴하며, 보다 유용하고 효과적입니다

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.3-12
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• 2006

세계 항공기산업은 새로운 기술과 새로운 전략, 이른바 ‘차세대’라는 단어로 대변될 수 있는 다음세대를 위한 개발과 전략의 변화를 겪고 있다. 먼저 군용기의 경우 미국의 F-35가 첫 선을 보이면서 차세대 전투기의 새장을 열어가고 있으며 우리나라 역시 T-50/A-50, 한국형헬리콥터(KHP)개발, 조기경보기 도입 등 공군력 강화를 위한 준비들이 단계적으로 이루어지고 있어 그에 따른 산업발전이 기대되고 있다. 민간 항공기를 살펴보면 A-380과 같은 대형 항공기 개발 추세와 A320과 B737과 같은 Narrow-body 항공기 생산이 증가하는 양상을 보이고 있다. 또한 개인용 소형제트기(VLJ)와 같은 항공기들은 차세대 틈새시장(niche market)을 형성, 발전가능성을 열어가고 있다. 민간항공기의 향후 생산전망을 살펴보면, 대형여객기의 경우 2015년까지 총 7,900여대로 연평균 800여대의 생산이 이루질 전망이며 헬리콥터의 경우 연평균 1,870여대로 총 18,730여대의 헬리콥터가 생산될 전망으로 약 1,200억불의 시장을 형성할 것으로 전망되고 있다. 이렇듯 군용기 시장에서는 차세대의 첨단 항공기 개발과 양산이 가시화되고 있으며 민간항공기의 경우, 특정 세분시장(market segment)의 주도적 개발과 양산보다는 비즈니스 환경의 변화와 고객층의 다양화로 인해 각 시장의 고객 니즈(needs)에 부합되는 다양한 항공기 개발과 양산이 이루어질 것으로 보인다.