The integrated digital/electrical aircraft (IDEA) is an aircraft concept which employs all electric secondary power systems and advanced digital flight control systems. After trade analysis, preferred systems were applied to the baseline configuration. An additional configuration, the alternate IDEA, was also considered. For this concept the design ground rules were relaxed in order to quantify additional synergistic benefits. It was proposed that an IDEA configuration and technical risks associated with the IDEA systems concepts be defined and the research and development required activities to reduce these risks be identified. The selected subsystems include: power generation, power distribution, actuators, environmental control system and flight controls systems. When the aircraft was resized, block fuel was predicted to decrease by 11.3 percent, with 7.9 percent decrease in direct operating cost. The alternate IDEA shows a further 3.4 percent reduction in block fuel and 3.1 percent reduction in direct operating cost.


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    Title :

    Integrated Digital/Electric Aircraft Concepts Study


    Contributors:
    M. J. Cronin (author) / A. P. Hays (author) / F. B. Green (author) / N. A. Radovcich (author) / C. W. Helsley (author)

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    464 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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