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Airplane Design Technical Overview

This document contains questions about airplane design concepts and engineering. It asks about aerodynamic efficiency, the role of design engineers, advantages of low wing designs, buried engines, disadvantages of rear engines, weight split-up equations, the function of horizontal tails, wing and thrust loading, why reserve fuel is necessary, activities in different design stages, airplane classifications, merits and demerits of high wing configurations, blended wing configurations, basic requirements for civil and military airplanes, classifying military airplanes, calculating gross weight using statistical data, drawing a 3-view diagram of an aircraft, determining wing loading based on range and landing performance, importance of data collection, parameters for preliminary design collection, weight estimation procedures, tailless and flying

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Airplane Design Technical Overview

This document contains questions about airplane design concepts and engineering. It asks about aerodynamic efficiency, the role of design engineers, advantages of low wing designs, buried engines, disadvantages of rear engines, weight split-up equations, the function of horizontal tails, wing and thrust loading, why reserve fuel is necessary, activities in different design stages, airplane classifications, merits and demerits of high wing configurations, blended wing configurations, basic requirements for civil and military airplanes, classifying military airplanes, calculating gross weight using statistical data, drawing a 3-view diagram of an aircraft, determining wing loading based on range and landing performance, importance of data collection, parameters for preliminary design collection, weight estimation procedures, tailless and flying

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AE3601- Airplane Design

Part A
1 What you mean Airplane Design?
2 Define Aerodynamic efficiency.
3 What is the role of a design engineer?
4 Write any two advantages of low wing design.
5 What you mean by buried engine?
6 What are the disadvantages of rear engine configuration?
7 Write the weight split-up equation for gross weight?
8 State the main function of the horizontal tail of a typical aircraft?
9 Define wing loading and thrust loading
10 In an aircraft mission why is reserve fuel necessary?
PART –B
11. a Explain the activities involved in various stages of airplane design.
[OR]
11. b How do you classify airplanes? Explain each one of them with necessary
diagram.
12. a (i) Explain the merits and demerits of high wing configuration.(8)
(ii) What you mean by blended wing configuration? (5)
[OR]
12. b What are the Basic Requirements for Civil and Military Airplanes?
13. a How do you Classify Military airplanes? Compare their primary requirements.
[OR]
13. b Calculate gross weight of a 20 seater commuter aircraft using statistical
data method.
14.a Draw 3- view diagram of an aircraft with rear engine, T-tail, low wing, swept
back and dihedral with nose/main Wheel - landing gear configuration.
[OR]
14.b Explain in detail about determination of wing loading with respect to
following conditions.(1)Wing loading based on the range of the aircraft.(2)Wing
loading based on landing performance
15.a Explain the importance of data collection. List down the parameters to be
collected for the preliminary design of an aircraft.
[OR]
15.b Explain the weight estimation procedure to calculate the gross weight of an
aircraft.
PART –C
Answer all Questions
16. a Write short notes on
(i) Tailless and flying wing design. (8)
(ii) Canard Design (7)
[OR]
16. b Explain wing loading and thrust loading/ power loading - optimization
procedure based on performance parameters.

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