NASA has developed a series of aircraft concepts known as reference vehicles for urban air mobility operations to facilitate research and development, enabling system-level comparisons between design candidates. In this study, new six-tiltrotor reference vehicles with full-electric and turboelectric propulsion systems were developed using the NASA Design and Analysis of Rotorcraft (NDARC) tool. The sizing results and performance metrics of these new vehicles are presented, along with comparisons to existing reference vehicles. The turboelectric six-tiltrotor is shown to be the fastest among the turboelectric reference vehicles. Although the full-electric six-tiltrotor is not as fast as the turboelectric version, it still offers considerable speed along with increased safety compared to the tiltrotor reference vehicle.


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    Titel :

    Design of a Six-Tiltrotor Concept Vehicle for Urban Air Mobility


    Beteiligte:
    T. Jeong (Autor:in) / M. Radotich (Autor:in) / W. Johnson (Autor:in) / C. Silva (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024


    Format / Umfang :

    13 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch