'Indoor Aviation' pre-dates manned flight. It is: a Science, an International Sport, a Recreation and a Hobby. Achieving satisfactory flight of a model indoors is a great challenge, enjoyed by thousands across the globe.
Today, 'Indoor Aviation' is also at the frontier of the new aviation age of unmanned aircraft. Tiny robotic aircraft are being designed and manufactured to fly indoors and outdoors for both militiary and civilian applications. It is part of the future research and development challenges of our current generation of aeronautical, robotic or computer software engineers.
Regardless of whether you are participating in Indoor Aviation as a hobby or a Research Scientist, you are facing the same challenges, to understand the laws of physics, make it fly and control its flight.
For a glimpse into this future, make a google search on: 'Micro Aerial Vehicles'.
Below is a tantalising peep into what advanced University based research and development teams are working on.
TED Lecture Micro quadrocopters flying in swarms. Collision avoidance of moving objects.
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/4ErEBkj_3PY&fmt=18&autoplay=1
Nano humming bird: Aerovironment.
The Surveillance Hummingbird: Watch It Fly and Spy
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1281633027001_2099853,00.html
Fixed wing UAV autonomous flight indoors. Self-mapping of an unknown enviroment, collision avoidance of fixed objects.
http://www.gizmag.com/mit-autonomous-indoor-uav/23686/
Today, 'Indoor Aviation' is also at the frontier of the new aviation age of unmanned aircraft. Tiny robotic aircraft are being designed and manufactured to fly indoors and outdoors for both militiary and civilian applications. It is part of the future research and development challenges of our current generation of aeronautical, robotic or computer software engineers.
Regardless of whether you are participating in Indoor Aviation as a hobby or a Research Scientist, you are facing the same challenges, to understand the laws of physics, make it fly and control its flight.
For a glimpse into this future, make a google search on: 'Micro Aerial Vehicles'.
Below is a tantalising peep into what advanced University based research and development teams are working on.
TED Lecture Micro quadrocopters flying in swarms. Collision avoidance of moving objects.
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/4ErEBkj_3PY&fmt=18&autoplay=1
Nano humming bird: Aerovironment.
The Surveillance Hummingbird: Watch It Fly and Spy
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1281633027001_2099853,00.html
Fixed wing UAV autonomous flight indoors. Self-mapping of an unknown enviroment, collision avoidance of fixed objects.
http://www.gizmag.com/mit-autonomous-indoor-uav/23686/

British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground.
They are the first to use the state-of-the-art handheld tiny surveillance helicopters, which relay reliable full motion video and still images back to the devices' handlers in the battlefield.
The Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle is the size of a child's toy, measuring just 10cm (4 ins) by 2.5cm (1 inch), and is equipped with a tiny camera.
They are the first to use the state-of-the-art handheld tiny surveillance helicopters, which relay reliable full motion video and still images back to the devices' handlers in the battlefield.
The Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle is the size of a child's toy, measuring just 10cm (4 ins) by 2.5cm (1 inch), and is equipped with a tiny camera.