メーヴェは飛べるのか?

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映画「風の谷のナウシカ」に登場する架空の乗り物であるメーヴェの飛行可能性を検討するために,実機を忠実に再現する模型を製作し,風洞試験によりメーヴェの空気力学的特性を明らかにした.また,風洞試験結果に基づいて,飛行に必要な基本的な性能および安定性の評価をおこなった.その結果,メーヴェは飛行を実現するのに十分な性能を有するが,現在の機体形状のままでは縦揺れの安定性を確保することができず,飛行の実現は困難であることがわかった.Mowe is a fictional flying vehicle appeared in the animated cartoon "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind". The airframe configuration of Mowe is very unique without vertical and horizontal tail, and its main wing is only equipped with flaperon as a pitch and roll control surface. However, to realize a tail-less plane such as the Mowe, detailed consideration about the aerodynamic configuration is needed from a viewpoint of aeronautical engineering. In this paper, in order to obtain aeronautical characteristics, aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the scale model with deflectable flaperon were measured experimentally by using wind tunnel at Chiba University. And we also estimated aerodynamic performance and stability based on a result from wind tunnel testing and considered realization of the flight.
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