Design of a easy to fly, low-cost generic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for civilian aerial-imaging application

This paper deals with the design of a generic UAV or commonly known as pilotless aircraft for civil application. Starting from market survey this paper will look into the existing civilian UAVs and designing of a new class of civilian UAV that can fill in the existing design gap that not readily available for commercial needs. The design goals have been previously established and the publication currently under peer review together with this paper [1]. This paper dealt with the preliminary design of a slow speed, easy to fly low-cost UAV known as the Alpha to fill in the gap that has been identified. A prototype has been built to demonstrate the capability of such craft completing the predefined mission typical of civilian usage.