  Birds and bats are extraordinarily adept flyers: whether in hunting prey, or
evading predators, agility and manoeuvrability in flight are vital. In
conventional high-performance aircraft, approaches to extreme manoeuvrability,
such as post-stall manoeuvring, have often focused on thrust-vectoring
technology - the domain of classical supermanoeuvrability - rather than
biomimicry. In this work, however, we show that these approaches are not
incompatible: biomimetic wing morphing is an avenue both to classical
supermanoeuvrability, and to new forms of biologically-inspired
supermanoeuvrability. Using a flight simulator equipped with a multibody model
of lifting surface motion and a Goman-Khrabrov dynamic stall model for all
lifting surfaces, we demonstrate the capability of a biomimetic morphing-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for two key forms of supermanoeuvrability: the
Pugachev cobra, and ballistic transition. Conclusions are drawn as to the
mechanism by which these manoeuvres can be performed, and their feasibility in
practical biomimetic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). These conclusions have wide
relevance to both the design of supermanoeuvrable UAVs, and the study of
biological flight dynamics across species.
