something-awful
Well-Known Member
I warned you all, I am terrible at naming things
Like my own username
So, I have a big lull in things to do for the next few weeks so I'm taking the time to have a proper jump into doing a conceptual design for a much smaller aircraft than what I'm used to. I need an excuse to properly learn the more exciting parts of XFLR and this should provide a fairly straight forward case to get involved with the uglier side of stability and control calculations.
Not really intending to trial an unconventional configuration, more just wanting to design something that just generally does a good job. I'll be showing everything in my working and where I've got it from. I'm prone to stupid little mistakes so having my working public should at least catch that
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The target specs then, taken from here and then any other additional caveats I'd like to add, to be compliant with the CAA Single Seat De-regulated Aircraft rules:
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Step numero uno is estimating empty weight, then a constraints analysis.
Like my own username
So, I have a big lull in things to do for the next few weeks so I'm taking the time to have a proper jump into doing a conceptual design for a much smaller aircraft than what I'm used to. I need an excuse to properly learn the more exciting parts of XFLR and this should provide a fairly straight forward case to get involved with the uglier side of stability and control calculations.
Not really intending to trial an unconventional configuration, more just wanting to design something that just generally does a good job. I'll be showing everything in my working and where I've got it from. I'm prone to stupid little mistakes so having my working public should at least catch that
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The target specs then, taken from here and then any other additional caveats I'd like to add, to be compliant with the CAA Single Seat De-regulated Aircraft rules:
- Max Takeoff Mass of 300kg (315kg with full aircraft parachute)
- VStall of 35KCAS
- Single Seat
- Trailer Storable
- Room for expansion to 2 seat capacity
- Compliant with 51% rule
- Relatively inexpensive (I need to look at what a decent basic build cost less custom avionics packages would be)
- Unrestricted aerobatic capability
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Step numero uno is estimating empty weight, then a constraints analysis.