Zen and the Art of Airplane Sizing

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Hays, Anthony P., author.

Conference Name:

General, Corporate & Regional Aviation Meeting & Exposition (1993-05-17 : Wichita, Kansas, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1993

Summary:

This paper describes the development of a set of algorithms that find the takeoff gross weight of an aircraft for given vehicle and engine characteristics, and mission requirements. A major objective was to find the most elementary set that would still yield useful answers. The result was a set that could be encoded on an inexpensive programmable pocket calculator with only 24 lines of code. Results are compared with actual characteristics of an executive jet and its derivative versions

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Publisher Number:

931255

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Restricted for use by site license