The memorandum is concerned with the design of cargo aircraft, particularly for their use in the army deployment mission. It suggests desirable relationships between compartment size and payload capacity for this mission, and thus aids in the design of future aircraft. The same criteria can also be used to assess capabilities of present aircraft. As a basis for comparing the carrying capacity and efficiency of various aircraft, the study employs a list of equipment drawn up by the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the U. S. Army. This list, received in September 1959, is an estimate of the equipment required by a hypothetical planning force designated as the 'A' Airborne Division Force, thought of as being used for show-of-force deployments. Final design decisions, must, of course, take other possible missions and lists of equipment into account. The following are some of the study's principal conclusions: (1) While cargo-compartment cubage may be an acceptable measure for measuring compartment space requirements for calculating peacetime airlift capability, the requirements of army deployment cargo demand a more accurate one. The bulk of this cargo is vehicular; peacetime cargo principally consists of small units which lend themselves to flexible arrangement. (2) The best single measure of the space requirement for the equipment studied (which excludes the largest items required in an army deployment) is cargo-compartment floor area rather than cubage.


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    Title :

    Aircraft Compartment Design Criteria for the Army Deployment Mission


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    45 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English