Book description
Commercial Airplane Design Principles is a succinct, focused text covering all the information required at the preliminary stage of aircraft design: initial sizing and weight estimation, fuselage design, engine selection, aerodynamic analysis, stability and control, drag estimation, performance analysis, and economic analysis.
The text places emphasis on making informed choices from an array of competing options, and developing the confidence to do so.
- Shows the use of standard, empirical, and classical methods in support of the design process
- Explains the preparation of a professional quality design report
- Provides a sample outline of a design report
- Can be used in conjunction with Sforza, Manned Spacecraft Design Principles to form a complete course in Aircraft/Spacecraft Design
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Introduction and Outline of an Airplane Design Report
- 1: Market Survey and Mission Specification
- 2: Preliminary Weight Estimation
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3: Fuselage Design
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Commercial aircraft cabin volume and pressure
- 3.3 General cabin layout
- 3.4 Cabin cross-section
- 3.5 Estimation of fuselage width
- 3.6 Estimation of fuselage length
- 3.7 Influence of fuselage fineness ratio
- 3.8 Estimation of nose cone and tail cone length
- 3.9 Cargo containers
- 3.10 Emergency exits
- 3.11 Recent developments in fuselage design
- 3.12 Design summary
- 3.13 Nomenclature
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4: Engine Selection
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Landing requirements
- 4.3 Wing loading in landing
- 4.4 Landing field length
- 4.5 Wing loading in takeoff
- 4.6 Takeoff distance
- 4.7 Cruise requirements
- 4.8 Construction of the engine selection design chart
- 4.9 Flight test data for landing and power approach
- 4.10 Turbojet and turbofan engines
- 4.11 Turboprops
- 4.12 Engine-out operation and balanced field length
- 4.13 Design summary
- 4.14 Nomenclature
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5: Wing Design
- 5.1 General wing planform characteristics
- 5.2 General airfoil characteristics
- 5.3 Lifting characteristics of the wing
- 5.4 Determination of wing maximum lift in the cruise configuration
- 5.5 High lift devices
- 5.6 Determination of CL,max for the wing in takeoff and landing configurations
- 5.7 Development and layout of the preliminary wing design
- 5.8 Design summary
- 5.9 Nomenclature
- 6: Tail Design
- 7: Landing Gear Design
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8: Refined Weight and Balance Estimate
- 8.1 Process for refining the weight estimate
- 8.2 Limit load factor
- 8.3 The design dive speed
- 8.4 Wing group weight
- 8.5 Fuselage group weight
- 8.6 Landing gear group weight
- 8.7 Tail group weight
- 8.8 Propulsion group weight
- 8.9 Nacelle group weight
- 8.10 Flight controls group weight
- 8.11 Auxiliary power unit group weight
- 8.12 Instrument group weight
- 8.13 Hydraulic and pneumatic group weight
- 8.14 Electrical group weight
- 8.15 Avionics group weight
- 8.16 Equipment and furnishing group weight
- 8.17 Air conditioning and anti-icing group weight
- 8.18 Wing group center of gravity
- 8.19 Fuselage group center of gravity
- 8.20 Landing gear group center of gravity
- 8.21 Tail group center of gravity
- 8.22 Propulsion group center of gravity
- 8.23 Aircraft center of gravity
- 8.24 Design summary
- 8.25 Nomenclature
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9: Drag Estimation
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Skin friction drag
- 9.3 Form drag
- 9.4 Drag build-up by components
- 9.5 Wing and tail drag
- 9.6 Fuselage drag
- 9.7 Nacelle and pylon drag
- 9.8 Landing gear drag
- 9.9 Flap and slat drag
- 9.10 Other drag sources
- 9.11 Calculation of the zero-lift drag coefficient neglecting wave drag
- 9.12 Compressibility drag at high subsonic and low transonic speeds
- 9.13 The area rule
- 9.14 Calculation of the wave drag coefficient
- 9.15 Effects of sweepback
- 9.16 The drag coefficient of the airplane
- 9.17 Thrust available and thrust required
- 9.18 Design summary
- 9.19 Nomenclature
- 10: Aircraft Performance
- 11: Aircraft Pricing and Economic Analysis
- Appendix A: Airfoil Characteristics
- Appendix B: 1976 US Standard Atmosphere Model
- Appendix C: Airfoil and Wing Theory and Analysis
- Appendix D: Graphs of Critical Mach Number
- Appendix E: Units and Conversion Factors
- Appendix F: General Database for Commercial Aircraft
- Index
Product information
- Title: Commercial Airplane Design Principles
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): Butterworth-Heinemann
- ISBN: 9780124199774
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