A preliminary design study of the performance and economics resulting from the application of the distributed load concept to large freighter aircraft was made. The study was limited to configurations having the payload entirely contained in unswept wings of constant chord with conventional tail surfaces supported from the wing by twin booms. A parametric study based on current technology showed that increases in chord had a similar effect on the economics as increases in span. Increases in both span and chord or airplane size had the largest and most favorable effect. At 600,000 lbs payload a configuration was selected and refined to incorporate advanced technology that could be in production by 1990 and compared with a reference conventional airplane having similar technology. (Author)


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    Title :

    Technical and Economic Assessment of Span-Distributed Loading Cargo Aircraft Concepts


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    232 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English