The aerodynamic design of a joined-wing flight demonstrator aircraft was accomplished by the NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with ACA Industries. The aircraft was designed to utilize the fuselage, engines, and undercarriage of the existing NASA AD-1 flight demonstrator aircraft. The design objectives, methods, constraints and the resulting aircraft design, called the JW-1, are presented. A wind tunnel model of the JW-1 was tested in the NASA Ames 12-foot wind tunnel. The test results indicate that the JW-1 has satisfactory flying qualities for a flight demonstrator aircraft. Good agreement of test results with design predictions confirmed the validity of the design methods used for application to joined-wing configurations.
The design of a joined wing flight demonstrator aircraft
Konstruktion eines Verbundtragfluegel-Flugdemonstrationsflugzeug
AIAA-Papers ; Sep ; 1-15
1987
15 Seiten, 25 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 15 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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