With application of the developed calculation-software package there were conducted the researches, demonstrating the possibility of in-flight refueling of civil aircraft. As a flying tanker there were chosen tanker aircraft ILyushin-78 which is currently operated and a perspective tanker on the basis of ILyushin-96-400T aircraft. Perspective aircraft MC-21-400 was chosen as an aircraft to be refueled.


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    Title :

    POSSIBILITY OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT IN-FLIGHT REFUELING


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    Publication date :

    2016



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

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