SWORD 30-30 to 60-60

CANNON SWORD's Twin (or Tandem) Wing design removes the need for a tail plane.

Cannon’s Twin or Tandem Wing design removes the need for a tail plane.

The tail plane of a traditional aircraft pushes down in order to balance the nose-heavy, forward orientated, Centre of Gravity (CoG).

This negative force can reduce lift by up to 20% and is a constant inefficiency, which reduces payload capacity, increases drag, increases fuel consumption and challenges stability.

Improved aircraft balance, stability and safety.

Two wings relocate the aircraft CoG balance point from the front, always nearer the front or leading edge of a single wing design, to a new position between the front and rear wings.

This more central balance point adds greatly improved stability as control surfaces, now on two wings rather than one, providing double corrective force and double the available redundancy of control surfaces. Safety is thus greatly enhanced!

The twin wings are much shorter, like for like. This makes for safer manoeuvring and reduces wing stress, also enhancing safety. Shorter wings reduce the tipping moment of wind gusts providing improved stability and further reduction of stress to the airframe. Fatigue of the structure is reduced, improving safety and extending operational life.

• Advanced Surveillance / Sensor / Cargo UAV

• Easily deployed and operated, Automated flights and deliveries / drops

• Massive payload sensor / gimbal capability and rapid ‘swap or drop’ of load containers

• Portable, easily handled equipment

• Transported and protected in convenient carrying cases

• Large capacity fuselage, ultra-long missions or large payloads as required

• Low magnetic signature for magnetic surveys and mapping use as well as stealthy surveillance

• Dual redundant control surfaces for extreme reliability

• Electric or EFI IC Petrol Twin cylinder pusher engines

• Efficient twin wing design promoting more lift as the wing loading is halved for each wing giving long flight duration, halving the wingspan compared to a traditional monoplane

• The VTOL Co-Ax lift version Combined with a hybrid power system this versatile UAV becomes a ‘Quad’ drone platform at the flick of a switch. Launcher versions also available along with STOL and STOVL

• Ultra-long flights of > 24 hours, bringing large UAV performance to commercial users

• BVLOS and Aircraft DAA capabilities to suit the client’s mission objectives