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In order to get more solar energy and better flight performance, HALE aircraft are normally built with relatively long and slender high-aspect ratio wings, so the wings of HALE aircraft are very flexible, with large wing deformations during flight.
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Zhanjun, C., Zhichao, F., Jinan, L., Ziqiang, L. (2020). Nonlinear Flight Dynamics of Very Flexible Aircraft. In: Okada, H., Atluri, S. (eds) Computational and Experimental Simulations in Engineering. ICCES 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 75. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27053-7_12
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