Late in 1990, the NASA Systems Integration Group began functioning and the aircraft systems studies entered a second phase. This group proposed tightly coordinated Ames/Langley/Lewis/industry studies that would address a series of tasks to evaluate progress, recommend appropriate direction, and emphasize changes in technology elements based on system level payoffs and potential success assessments. Based on technical and economic assessment studies of the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) to date, Mach 2.4 was chosen as the primary focus for the High Speed Research Program with Mach numbers 2.0 and 1.6 being backups in case of technology shortfalls. Langley has established an interdisciplinary team to strengthen the multidisciplinary aspects of aircraft design and analysis. The vehicle focus of this team is the HSCT. At Langley, early HSCT studies focused on turbojet powered aircraft. They also concluded that variable sweep wing concepts require 50/50 subsonic/supersonic to payoff for Mach 3.0 concept. Progress has been good in low sonic boom concepts.
Overview of Langley Systems Studies
1992
33 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Aerodynamics , Noise Pollution & Control , Aircraft design , Civil aviation , Noise reduction , Sonic booms , Supersonic transports , Systems integration , Variable sweep wings , Aircraft configurations , General overviews , High speed , Jet aircraft , Mach number , Supersonic speed , Turbojet engines
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