The NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Fixed Wing (FW) Project addresses the comprehensive challenge of enabling revolutionary energy efficiency improvements in subsonic transport aircraft combined with dramatic reductions in harmful emissions and perceived noise to facilitate sustained growth of the air transportation system. Advanced technologies and the development of unconventional aircraft systems offer the potential to achieve these improvements. Multidisciplinary advances are required in aerodynamic efficiency to reduce drag, structural efficiency to reduce aircraft empty weight, and propulsive and thermal efficiency to reduce thrust-specific energy consumption (TSEC) for overall system benefit. Additionally, advances are required to reduce perceived noise without adversely affecting drag, weight, or TSEC, and to reduce harmful emissions without adversely affecting energy efficiency or noise.The presentation will highlight the Fixed Wing project vision of revolutionary systems and technologies needed to achieve these challenging goals. Specifically, the primary focus of the FW Project is on the N+3 generation; that is, vehicles that are three generations beyond the current state of the art, requiring mature technology solutions in the 2025-30 timeframe.


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    Title :

    Fixed Wing Project: Technologies for Advanced Air Transports


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    Conference:

    UTIAS International Workshop on Aviation and Climate Change ; 2014 ; Toronto, Ontario, Canada


    Publication date :

    2014-05-27


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Fixed Wing Project: Technologies for Advanced Air Transports

    R. Del Rosario / M. J. Koudelka / A. R. Wahls et al. | NTIS | 2014