A Preliminary Design Study of large turbulent flow military transport aircraft has been made. The study airplanes were designed to carry a heavy payload (350,000 lb) for a long range (10,000 nmi). The study tasks included: Wing geometry/cruise speed optimization of a large cantilever wing military transport airplane; Preliminary design and performance evaluation of a strut-braced wing transport airplane; and Structural analyses of large-span cantilever and strut-braced wings of graphite/epoxy sandwich construction (1985 technology). The best cantilever wing planform for minimum takeoff gross weight, and minimum fuel requirements, as determined using statistical weight evaluations, has a high aspect ratio, low sweep, low thickness/chord ratio, and a cruise Mach number of 0.76. A near optimum wing planform with greater speed capability (M = 0.78) has an aspect ratio = 12, quarter chord sweep = 20 deg, and thickness/chord ratio of 0.14/0.08 (inboard/outboard).


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    Title :

    Wing Planform Geometry Effects on Large Subsonic Military Transport Airplanes


    Contributors:
    R. M. Kulfan (author) / J. D. Vachal (author)

    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    74 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English