Abstract: “The present work presents a remotely controlled aircraft design methodology. Differently from the common bibliography, that leaves experimentation to the last stages of design, this process is based on experimental data belonging to the aircraft configuration desired even in preliminary design stages. This increases the quality of numerical analysis at the same time that reduces its computational cost. Allying these factors, it is possible to design new configurations uncovered by bibliography or optimize an already established configuration to obtain great performance in specific missions.”

Keywords: design, aircraft, radio controlled, UAV