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FLYING WING
Aircraft Design
This unconventional aircraft is a flying wing designed in collaboration with a fellow student. It's a weather UAV capable of collecting scientific data inside a hurricane and safely return to base. The flying wing configuration allowed us to create a very compact design that gave the engine an extra layer of protection. The tips of the wing are also able to flap up to increase lateral stability when encountering high amounts of turbulence.
Flying Wing: About
The design team performed a constraint analysis to determine the configuration size of the airplane. The constraint diagram provided us with combinations of wing loading (W/S) and thrust-to-weight ratio (T/W) that met our requirements. These combinations are located on points above the constraint curves. It was determined that the optimum design point had a wing loading of 22 psf and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 0.2083.
Flying Wing: About
The V-n diagram or flight envelope is a graph that shows the specific load factors vs. airspeed that the aircraft has been designed to operate within. The flight envelope provides the structural engineers with the limitation that the structure must be designed with. It also gives pilots an understanding of the aircraft limitations, such as the dive speed, the maximum deflection of control surfaces or the speed they have to maintain in case of turbulent conditions.
Flying Wing: About
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