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Design Process: Planform Shape
...take a more detailed look at how the features of these various planforms affect the design and how the designer can balance these considerations to reach a final wing design....
Design Process: All-Moving Tails
...complex design, heavier structure and tricky root-gap aerodynamics. In most cases, a conventional tail will be simpler and lighter, but occasionally the all-moving tail wins out in the design trade-off....
Design Process: Horizontal Tail
...data provides a good starting point for the new design. Later on, as the design becomes more defined, more detailed calculation of the CG range and stability characteristics of the...
Design Process: Aileron Types
...As aileron forces rose, designers came up with new design concepts that reduced aileron hinge moments dramatically. Using a combination of hinge placement and nose shaping, these new designs enabled...
Design Process: Wing Structure
...transports). At the other end of the spectrum, fighters are designed to limit load factors between 7 and 9 G’s and unlimited aerobatic airplanes are typically designed to a limit...
Design Process: Landing Gear, Part 6
...for a while, operators conclude that the designer got it a little bit wrong. A good example of this is the Cessna 120/140. Apparently, Cessna designers opted to move the...
Design Process: Landing Gear, Part 5
...the landing gear configuration. The primary decision the designer must make is the fore and aft position of the main wheels relative to the CG. This decision involves multiple factors...
Design Process: CG Loading
...of the CG. The airplane must be safely flyable with the CG at all possible in-flight positions. This safety is ensured by a combination of the design of the airplane...
Design Process: T-Tails
...faster before the pilot could rotate the nose up for takeoff. Junction From a structural design viewpoint, it would be ideal to have the main spar of the vertical fin...
Design Process: End Plates and Winglets
...increase needed to implement a winglet, we could build a longer-span wing, which would also have lower induced drag than the initial wing design. There is still considerable difference of...
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