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Aircraft Design and Operation

Unit Code: HES2945

Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
One Semester	48 hours (4 hours per week)	Hawthorn	Nil but HES2940 is recommended as either a pre-requisite or corequisite	Nil, but HES2940 is recommended as either a pre-requisite or corequisite

Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

One Semester

48 hours (4 hours per week)

Hawthorn

Nil but HES2940 is recommended as either a pre-requisite or corequisite

Nil, but HES2940 is recommended as either a pre-requisite or corequisite

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Aviation, Bachelor of Aviation (Management), Bachelor of Aviation (Management)/ Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Aviation/ Bachelor of Commerce

Aims & Objectives:

To provide the student with a fundamental understanding of the design principles behind the design of an aircraft. The performance aspects are also extended to address the economics of flight of jet transports.

At the successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

to describe how factors such as weight, wing area, engine power, drag and high lift devices effect aircraft performance and to apply basic estimation techniques to determine an aircraft configuration to meet a specified mission,
to compose gust and manoeuvre diagrams,
to describe the principles behind jet transport performance in an airline environment.

Teaching Methods:

Classroom based with online Blackboard support.

Assessment:

Examination (Worth 60%),
Assignments (Worth 40%).

Generic Skills Outcomes:

analysis skills,
problem solving skills,
ability to tackle unfamiliar problems, and
ability to work independently.

Content:

Design process
Project design methodology, overall systems study, project design phase, detail design phase.

Project design
Estimation of take off weight, empty weight, fuel weight. Estimation of required take off and climb power, wing area. Landing and take off performance, climb and cruise performance. Estimation of parasitic and induced drag coefficients. Tail volume stability requirements.

Gust and Manoeuvre Diagrams
Effect of Manoeuvre Margin

Operation
Economy Climb
Force – Speed Diagrams
Maximum Range Cruise, Long Range Cruise and Specific Range
Economy cruise, cost index
Tankering
Payload Range curves

Textbooks:

Nil

References:

Roskam, J., Airplane Design: Part 1, Roskam Aviation, 2005.
Roskam, J., Airplane Design: Part 6, Roskam Aviation. 2000
Lan, C.T., Roskam, J., Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance, Roskam Aviation, 2003.
Shevell, R., Fundamentals of Flight, Prentice Hall, 1989.
Anderson, J.D., Aircraft Performance and Design, McGraw Hill, 1999
Eshelby, M.E., Aircraft Performance, Theory and Practice, Arnold, 2000
Stinton, D., The Design of the Aeroplane, 2nd. Edn., Wiley-Blackwell, 2001
McCormick, B., Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics, 2nd edn., John Wiley & Sons, 1994
Hoerner, S., Fluid-Dynamic Drag.
Anon., Code of Federal Regulations, Aeronautics and Space, 14CFR1.1. US Govt. Printer
Ward, D., Strganac, T., Introduction to Flight Test Engineering, Kendall Hunt 2001.
Padilla, C.E., Optimizing Jet Transport Efficiency, McGraw-Hill, 1996.