Very high altitude micro air vehicle deployment method

Abstract The paper presents the original work and method for high altitude micro air vehicle deployment. The method is based on the scientific ballooning, and adapted for stratospheric flight of commercial off-the-shelf micro air vehicle in flying wing configuration. The High Altitude Micro Air Vehicle, built for this research, was deployed during a test experiment at the lower level of the stratosphere. The results of the experiment and technical details are presented. The paper concludes the experiment’s findings and delivers assumptions for the future work and next experiment.