Barnard Microsystems Limited

Above: unpacking the InView prior to a test flight. Modularity was a necessity to enable the aircraft to easily be transported, here in the back of a 4x4 car, from the development centre in West Sussex to the flight test site. The InView can be assembled and tested by two people within an hour.

• all the parts can be transported in 2m long boxes by car, by van, or as air freight;

• assembly of the InView can take place in a field;

• the InView can be equally quickly disassembled for transportation back to base.

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Above: the aircraft parts are laid out, showing a variation on the tricycle undercarriage in which the two larger, weight bearing, wheels are in front.

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Above: the carbon fibre tail booms are added first, followed by attachment of the elevator.

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Above: the rudder is attached next.

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Above: the underside connections are made to the three servos in the tail section: two servos are used to control the elevator and one is used to control the rudder.

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Start of attachment of the left tail fin to InView IV-07.

Securing the left tail fin to InView IV-07.

Attachment of right tail fin to InView IV-07.

Securing the right tail fin.

InView IV-07 twin tail fin assembly complete.

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Above: two people are need to attach the central wing section.

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Above: sliding in the carbon fibre wing booms and then checking the Centre-of-Gravity. The InView must balance about the carbon fibre booms.

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Above: attaching the left wing section.

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Above: attaching the right wing section and one of the under-wing payload modules.

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Above: attaching the other under-wing payload module.

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Above: the aircraft is now ready for servo and radio link testing.

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Above: side view of the InView.

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Above: view from the rear of the InView aircraft undergoing servo and radio range testing.

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