D. Palasis, S. Wagner

Presented in this paper is the development of a conceptual design method for rotary-wing aircraft. This method allows to perform conceptual design studies for a helicopter or tiltrotor based on a given mission and with the help of Carpet-Plots. The corresponding computer program, which has a modular structure, contains a number of subroutines, where the most important ones are those to simulate the engine behaviour including fuel consumption, to calculate the weight break-down and to compute aerodynamic forces, performance and trim. The variation of some geometric parameters is presented for a light helicopter and a tiltrotor. The comparisons of the optimized data for the light helicopter and the tiltrotor show good agreement with those for some designed aircraft.

17th European Rotorcraft Forum 1991, Berlin

Conference Paper

englisch

21,0 x 29,7 cm, 14 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 1991, 1991-08, 17th European Rotorcraft Forum Proceedings; S.83-96; 1991; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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aircraft design, helicopters, optimization, tilt rotor aircraft

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1991