What is it about?
The present paper aims to assess the reliability and the limitations of analysing flight stability of a box-wing aircraft configuration known as PrandtlPlane by means of methods conceived for conventional aircraft and well known in the literature.
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Why is it important?
This paper is part of the activities carried out during the PARSIFAL project, which aims to demonstrate that the introduction of PrandtlPlane as air transport mean can fuel consumption and noise impact, providing a sustainable answer to the growing air passenger demand envisaged for the next decades.
Perspectives
The possibility of applying a faster method as the “Roskam-like” one here presented has two main implications: it allows to implement faster analyses in the conceptual and preliminary design of PrandtlPlane, providing also a tool for the definition of the design space in case of optimization approaches and it allows to implement a scaling procedure, to study families of PrandtlPlanes or different aircraft categories.
Dr Vittorio Cipolla
Universita degli Studi di Pisa
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This page is a summary of: Preliminary stability analysis methods for PrandtlPlane aircraft in subsonic conditions, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, November 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/aeat-12-2017-0284.
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