Abstract
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) established a new category of LSA (Light Sports Aircraft) that will be the base category of PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) in 2004. Infrastructure, license and category are going to prepare at present. in addition, we consider that some progress of airplane is necessary and will be given by robotic technology for aircraft handling. The airplane using robotic technology for PAV was proposed. We indicated the basic design, constructed prototypes of the 3-dimensional transport robot (3DTR) and results of test flights in this paper. The 3DTR is the new aviation device, which has twin turbojet engines with hyper noise reduction system and flexible wing controlled by 2-axis actuator. We constructed 3DTR and succeeded in demonstrating first flight on November 22 in 2005. Market of personal transport by PAV will appear in the near future and we believe that the research of PAV for physical distribution will become one of the important parts in logistics and transport technology.
