As flight envelope has expanded, increasing number of possible applications of variable geometry devices has developed; aerodynamic factors have been shown to present some difficulty in using variable sweep wings in strictly subsonic areas of slow flight, maneuvering and best cruise; they, and other variable geometry devices, offer considerable promise in maintaining good subsonic characteristics while minimizing supersonic drag (either at low lift or near maximum L/D) or effecting desired stability margins.
Aerodynamic design considerations of variable geometry aircraft
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1967 Design
1967
10 pages
Conference paper
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Aerodynamic Design Considerations of Variable Geometry Aircraft
SAE Technical Papers | 1967
|Maintainability considerations in variable geometry aircraft
Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
|Maintainability Considerations in Variable Geometry Aircraft
SAE Technical Papers | 1967
|Aerodynamic design considerations for aircraft radomes
AIAA | 1990
|Aircraft aerodynamic design : geometry and optimization
TIBKAT | 2015
|