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    Airplane design(Aerodynamic) Prof. E.G.

    Tulapurkara
    Chapter-1

    Chapter 1

    Exercises
    1.1 Airplane design is done in three stages viz. project feasibility study
    preliminary design and design project. Give the aims of these three stages and
    briefly describe the steps in each of them.
    1.2 What are the differences between passenger and cargo airplanes from the
    point of view of design requirements?
    1.3 What is the mock-up stage in design process? How can this stage be
    eliminated ?
    1.4 How do Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computational Fluid Dynamics
    (CFD) reduce the design cycle time ?
    1.5 What are the canard tail and conventional tail configurations? What are the
    advantages and disadvantages of each configuration ?
    1.6 From Ref.1.21 study the three view drawings of three medium range jet
    transport airplanes e.g. Boeing 737, Airbus-320 and MD-87. Observe the three
    configurations and point out the similarities and differences between them.
    Also point out the special features of each of these configurations and comment
    on the advantages and disadvantages of these features.
    1.7 Appendices 1.1 and 1.2 give the brief outlines of the activities of Airbus
    industry and Boeing aircraft company. The names of some other important
    airplane companies are given below. From internet (www.google.com), study the
    activities of these companies especially, in the areas of airplane design and
    manufacture.
    (a) Embraer of Brazil.
    (b) Bombardier of Canada.
    (c) Chengdu aircraft industrial corporation of China.
    (d) Dassault aviation of France.
    (e) Hindustan aeronautics limited of India.
    (f) Israel aerospace industries of Israel.
    (g) Aermacchi of Italy.

    Dept. of Aerospace Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1


    Airplane design(Aerodynamic) Prof. E.G. Tulapurkara
    Chapter-1
    (h) Mitsubishi of Japan.
    (i) Ilyushin, MIG, SUKHOI and TUPOLEV of Russian federation.
    (j) SAAB of Sweden.
    (k) British aerospace of UK.
    (l) Cessna (Textron), General dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman,
    and Raytheon of USA.

    Dept. of Aerospace Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2

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