• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.8-13
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• 2007

Improvement of the maintenance of firefly is another important part of the electrical system design with the performance. Usually, the maintenance of electrical system for small aircraft is more difficult than the maintenance of engine. The firefly electrical system imports the concept of module for design. In concept of module, sub-module can re easily isolated each other. Therefore, the maintenance of sub-module is possible. In this paper, the design and production of firefly electrical system is described.

• 시스템엔지니어링워크숍
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• s.3
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• pp.113-132
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• 2004

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.692-697
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• 2005

A canard type aircraft, which has good wing stall and stall/spin proof characteristics, is being developed. The previous first and second prototypes, having full depth core sandwich type wing and fixed landing gear, was built for test flights. Newly developing Firefly will be equipped with retractable landing gear and conventional foam core sandwich laminate for wing and fuselage. For manufacturing, composite material process has been studied including coupon tests. Wet lay-up onto foam core with glass fabric using lay-up mold has been chosen, and composite material parts are cured under room temperature and atmospheric pressure condition. In general, molded parts show so good surface smoothness and standardized quality that are best in mass production. In this study, we present the mold technology and development status for small aircraft firefly.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2007

In this study was made the flutter analysis for the export model of Firefly(Bandi-ho), the small canard aircraft. Stiffness model based on internal load generation finite element model was generated. Mass model based on the weight DB for weight control was generated. Aerodynamic model based on Doublet Lattice Method was generated. Preliminary flutter analysis was made. Based on it, major vibration modes are identified and experimentally obtained via the ground vibration test. The obtained normal mode frequencies were used to correlate the finite element model. Flutter analysis was made again and major flutter mechanisms were summarized. The most important flutter root was identified as a coupled root between rigid body roll mode and anti-symmetric wing pitching mode.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.15-20
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• 2005

Most of studies for the ground load and ground behavior of landing gear have been conducted with an assumption that the structure of landing gear was rigid body. The assumption of rigid body during design process results in many errors or discrepancy. High ground load occurs in 3 directions on the shock absorbing strut during landing. This ground load initiated high structural deformation. In this study, the flex-multi-body dynamics is applied to adapt flexible bodies, so the results of analysis can be described close to landing gears real behaviour.

• The Journal of Aerospace Industry
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• s.68
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• pp.24-37
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 최근에 개발된 수출형 4인승 선미익기 반디호와 연계하여 국내 소형 항공기의 수출동향과 향후 개발 전략 패러다임에 관하여 기술하였다. 현재 국내 소형항공기 개발은 침체되어 있지만, 그동안 쌓아올린 연구개발 경험을 바탕으로 국내 산학연의 능력을 결집, 적절한 일반 항공기종의 개발을 지금부터 시작한다면 본격적인 세계시장진입 및 세계 10위권 진입은 충분히 가능할 것이다. 성공적인 소형항공기 수출 시스템 가동을 위하여 중소기업을 중심으로 컨소시엄 형성으로 개발 전략 패러다임의 구현이 필요하다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 2005

There are several ways to mold the complex material, and it is divided to vacuum pack mold, compression mold, and hand lay up for a high molecular substance as a basic material. Moreover, it can be divided to general manufacturing (Single form) and mold manufacturing(Mold form) under normal temperature for Firefly. Firefly was manufactured with hand lay up and general manufacturing that using the foam core, glass fabric, and template without mold. However, mold manufacturing that is producing the surface by semi-sandwich using thin foam core and glass fabric then reinforce the inside with spar and rib is on developing. Mold manufacturing can make easy to production, standardize the quality, and possible to mass producing. In this paper, we present the mold producing process for canard aircraft "Firefly", and the problems and solutions during producing Firefly. Moreover, it complements the defect that the problems caused by master manufacturing error when produce several masters of a large part, and make the manufacturing process to be shortened by the replacement from the supplementary plate to the foam that is installed when producing lay up mold.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.1 s.20
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• pp.39-48
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• 2005

After the development of the Firefly, flight tests have been performed to verify the performance and get the parameters for the mathematical model of the aircraft. The flight test data is used to get parameters for the mathematical model of the aircraft through the parameter identification process. An arbitrary control input is applied to the test flight which is a part of parameter identification process. A square wave has been used a control input which is called Doublet signal. The aspect of the signal is same length and magnitude in both (+) and (-) directions such as sine wave. The Doublet signal is composed of a dominant frequency and many high frequencies, so that it is appropriate signal to excite the motion of an aircraft. In this paper, the control input of the flight test data has been analyzed to check the efficiency of the control input using DFT(Discrete Fourier Transform). From the result of analysis, an alternative input was extracted.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.8-27
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• 2002

In this study, the load analysis of a composite canard aircraft is performed numerically. Excel visual basic program for PC is used to calculate aerodynamic coefficients, loads and moments etc.. The basic data required for the load analysis such as aircraft configuration and dimension, parts and its weight and coordinate etc. are obtained from Catia modeling, measurement or material density. Aircraft weight, center of gravity, inertia moment, structural design speeds, wing load distribution, forces and moments are evaluated by using these data. V-n diagram is also represented for selecting critical loads applied to the wing and fuselage. The V-n diagram is investigated to decide the flight envelope of canard aircraft for design speed VA, VC, VD and load factor +3.8G, -1.52G at maximum weight of 2,573 lbs and sea level. In the future, the results of the wing and fuselage load analysis is to represented by using selected critical loads.