This lecture discusses envisaged advanced concepts across the speed range including VTOL converticars (personal air transportation), advanced subsonic and supersonic long haul transports, hypersonic transports, and developments/applications of flow control technology. Special emphasis is given to advanced VTOL configurations which may offer simultaneous opportunities for mitigation of both drag-due-to-lift and wake vortex hazard and to synergistic propulsive and aerodynamic interactions. The lecture concludes that a virtual revolution in the civilian aeronautical world is conceivable as a result of technology maturation in several areas which could enable the exploitation of 'end-point' designs.
Far Term Visions: The Frontiers of the Responsibly Imaginable
1996
36 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aeronautics , Aerodynamics , Air Transportation , Aeronautical engineering , Air transportation , Feasibility analysis , Transport aircraft , Vertical takeoff aircraft , Aircraft design , Civil aviation , Drag reduction , Economic factors , Lift drag ratio , Supersonic transports , Technology assessment
Online Contents | 1999
Frontiers of the "Responsibly Imaginable" in (Civilian) Aeronautics
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
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