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Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) have been used for many years and it mainly focus on military purposes. Numerous UAV development have been popular worldwide because the low in development cost, operating cost and ability to provide accurate surveillance information and it is a better option for performing reconnaissance missions in hostile environment. However, in the past years a new type of UAV has appeared that possessed lighter weight and smaller in size and it is categorized as a micro unmanned air vehicle (μ-UAV). Although the nonautonomous ready-to-fly tailless μ-UAV exists among local universities, the development of non-autonomous ready-to-fly tailless μ-UAV is still open to be explored. Thus, this project demonstrates the development of the non-autonomous ready-to-fly tailless μ-UAV named as Neo-Ptero. A special CNC hot wire cutter machine was used in the Neo-Ptero fuselage and wing development in which has evidently produced high accuracy of shapes and geometry based on the CAD design. A 3D printing process was used to produce few parts in the Neo-Ptero μ-UAV model. The model was equipped with on shelves RC components for future flight testing purpose. The actual Neo-Ptero weigh around 1.3kg and has a wingspan of 120.6cm.

Micro Aerial Vehicles, otherwise known as MAVs, is defined as an aerial vehicle that has a 15cm or less wingspan with a take off wight of less than 200g. Its miniature size and manoeuvrability allows it to fly in confined space at low Reynolds number flight conditions (100 – 100,000). In this study, an entothopter design inspired by dragonfly wings was investigated using a subsonic wind tunnel to see the effect of tandem wing configuration on the lift generation. The study was done at different flapping frequency (5-11Hz) and at different flight speed (5m/s, 7m/s, and 9m/s). It was observed that in phase flapping configuration produces better lift for all flapping frequency and all flight speed.

Paper plane has a high potential to be upgraded as a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). Due to its simplicity, paper plane offers easier design option compared to the biological inspired designs as shown in recent MAV development. However, researchers have underestimate and overlook the basic aerodynamic performance induced by these paper planes. This is due to its common usage as toys and wide range of paper plane design. Thus, the objective for current work is to analyse and compare the aerodynamics forces and its performance for selected paper plane design known as Glider, Wide Stunt Glider Plane and Stunt plane. A series of CFD simulations on each paper plane was executed by using ANSYS-CFX module. A steady state, incompressible flow Navier-Stokes equation (RANS) combined with Shear Stress Turbulence (SST) model were used in this works to solve flow problem over the paper planes. The analysis is mainly conducted to study and compare the lift coefficient (), drag coefficient ()and aerodynamic efficiency () performances for each paper planes. The results show that the Glider paper plane has managed to produce better performances in terms overall magnitude, stall angle, wider angle of attack (?) envelope and higher maximum lift coefficient magnitude compared to the other paper plane design. However, Glider paper plane has the least distributions by producing at least 14.3% larger magnitude compared to the other plane design at certain ? region. Instead, The Wide Stunt has promisingly produced better distribution by producing lower value compared to the other plane design. Based on performance, the Wide Stunt paper plane has produced better and maximum aerodynamic efficiency () magnitudes compared to the other design. Wide Stunt paper plane induced at least 6.4% better magnitude compared to the other paper plane design. Based on these results, it can be concluded that Wide Stunt paper plane has promising advantages which are very crucial for the paper plane especially during hovering operation, take-off and landing manoeuvre.