Flying without Wing Flaps and without a Pilot

University of Leicester Public Release, 21 Mar 2006 A revolutionary model plane has been developed as part of a £6.2m programme, involving engineers from the University of Leicester. The five-year programme is called FLAVIIR -- flapless air vehicle integrated industrial research -- and involves teams from Leicester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Swansea, Warwick, York and London. Manchester University's Goldstein Aeronautical Research Laboratory developed the model aircraft and the programme is managed by Cranfield University. Read more