Preface |
|
xiii | |
Acknowledgements |
|
xv | |
|
|
1 | (5) |
|
1.1 Why Another Aircraft Design Book? |
|
|
1 | (1) |
|
|
1 | (1) |
|
|
2 | (4) |
|
2 Why Should We Design a New Aircraft? |
|
|
6 | (14) |
|
|
6 | (2) |
|
2.2 Operator-Derived Specifications |
|
|
8 | (3) |
|
2.3 Specification for a Close Air Support Aircraft |
|
|
11 | (2) |
|
2.4 Requirements for an Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle |
|
|
13 | (1) |
|
2.5 Airline Specifications for a 150-seat Airliner |
|
|
14 | (6) |
|
3 Why is it That Shape?: Civil Aircraft |
|
|
20 | (20) |
|
|
20 | (6) |
|
|
26 | (14) |
|
4 Why is it That Shape?: Other Types |
|
|
40 | (25) |
|
4.1 Military Aircraft Types |
|
|
40 | (14) |
|
4.2 Rotorcraft, V/STOL Aircraft and Uninhabited Aerial Systems |
|
|
54 | (11) |
|
5 What's Under the Skin?: Structure and Propulsion |
|
|
65 | (18) |
|
|
65 | (1) |
|
|
65 | (8) |
|
5.3 Propulsion: the Primary Power System |
|
|
73 | (10) |
|
6 What's Under the Skin?: Airframe Systems |
|
|
83 | (18) |
|
6.1 Secondary Power Systems |
|
|
83 | (6) |
|
|
89 | (4) |
|
|
93 | (1) |
|
|
93 | (1) |
|
6.5 Landing Gear Installations |
|
|
94 | (5) |
|
6.6 Recent Innovations in Airframe Systems |
|
|
99 | (2) |
|
7 What's under the skin?: Avionics, Flight Control and Weapon Systems |
|
|
101 | (21) |
|
|
101 | (8) |
|
7.2 Flight Control Systems |
|
|
109 | (4) |
|
|
113 | (9) |
|
8 Why do Aircraft Cost so Much? |
|
|
122 | (22) |
|
|
122 | (1) |
|
8.2 Acquisition Costs (The Costs of Buying or Acquiring the Aircraft) |
|
|
122 | (5) |
|
8.3 Civil Aircraft Operating Costs |
|
|
127 | (1) |
|
8.4 Military Aircraft Life-Cycle Costs |
|
|
128 | (2) |
|
8.5 The Costs of Reliability and Maintainability |
|
|
130 | (14) |
|
9 What Help Can I Get?: Bibliography and Computer-Aided Design |
|
|
144 | (21) |
|
9.1 Aircraft Design Bibliography |
|
|
144 | (3) |
|
9.2 Data Sheets, Airworthiness Requirements and Environmental Targets |
|
|
147 | (4) |
|
9.3 Computer Design Tools |
|
|
151 | (5) |
|
9.4 The Integration of Computer Tools as Part of Concurrent Engineering |
|
|
156 | (1) |
|
9.5 Classic Computer-Aided Design Systems |
|
|
157 | (8) |
|
10 The Shape of Things to Come: Should the Project Continue? |
|
|
165 | (15) |
|
|
165 | (1) |
|
10.2 Conceptual Design Definition |
|
|
165 | (1) |
|
10.3 Comparison and Choice |
|
|
166 | (1) |
|
10.4 Simple Decision-Making Techniques |
|
|
166 | (1) |
|
10.5 Example of a Conceptual Aircraft Design Definition Description: The Cranfield A-90 |
|
|
167 | (10) |
|
10.6 Progress of the A-90 Project beyond the Conceptual Design Stage |
|
|
177 | (3) |
|
11 What Can Go Wrong?: Some Lessons from Past Aircraft Projects, and a Glimpse into the Future |
|
|
180 | (22) |
|
|
180 | (1) |
|
11.2 Aircraft that Suffered from Requirements that were too Restrictive, too Ambitious or were Changed during Development |
|
|
180 | (5) |
|
11.3 Projects that were Overtaken by Events |
|
|
185 | (3) |
|
11.4 A Step Too Far or Too Soon? |
|
|
188 | (3) |
|
11.5 Some Challenging Future Projects |
|
|
191 | (8) |
|
|
199 | (3) |
|
Appendix A Useful Aircraft Design Data |
|
|
202 | (64) |
|
|
202 | (1) |
|
|
202 | (1) |
|
A3 UK and US/SI Conversion Tables and Airspeed Charts |
|
|
203 | (3) |
|
A4 Aircraft Leading Data Tables |
|
|
206 | (13) |
|
|
219 | (17) |
|
|
236 | (8) |
|
A7 Structures and Materials Data |
|
|
244 | (2) |
|
|
246 | (1) |
|
A9 Aircraft Interior Data |
|
|
247 | (13) |
|
|
260 | (6) |
|
Appendix B A-90 Parametric Study. Example: The A-90 500-Seat Airliner |
|
|
266 | (11) |
|
|
266 | (1) |
|
B2 Landing Field Distance |
|
|
266 | (2) |
|
|
268 | (1) |
|
|
269 | (1) |
|
|
270 | (1) |
|
|
271 | (2) |
|
B7 Ceiling with One Engine Inoperative |
|
|
273 | (2) |
|
B8 Arrival at the Match Point |
|
|
275 | (2) |
|
Appendix C The Prediction of Aircraft Reliability and Maintainability Targets |
|
|
277 | (5) |
|
|
277 | (1) |
|
C2 Commercial Aircraft Dispatch Reliability Prediction |
|
|
277 | (5) |
References |
|
282 | (5) |
Index |
|
287 | |