AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA - August 15-18, 2005 "Ground Station and Flight Simulator for a Remotely-Piloted Non Conventional Airship"

An innovative remotely-piloted airship has been designed and patented by Nautilus S.p.A. and equipped with high precision sensors and communication deices by Galileo Avionica and Selex Communication. The object of this project is a low speed, low altitude advanced unmanned platform, named Elettra Twin Flyers, which should be employed for reconnaissance, monitoring and telecommunication purposes both in military and civil area. For technical and commercial reasons a low-cost-high-fidelity Flight Simulator has been implemented and used to develop a new Ground Station Concept.