Synergistic hybrid-electric liquid natural gas drone: S.H.I.E.L.D

What is it about?

With the objective to assess potentially performant hybrid electric architectures, this paper presents an aircraft performance level evaluation, in terms of range and payload, of the synergies between a hybrid electric energy system configuration and a cryogenic fuel system. The selected platform is a Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that shows up to 46% range increase and up to 7% gain on payload with a reference hybrid electric aircraft that uses conventional drop-in JP-8 fuel.

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