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A study on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Flat plat Variable Wing by Combined Swept Back and Forward (평판 가변날개에서 앞-뒤젖힘이 동시에 변할 때의 공력특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, B.J.;Oh, S.D.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.31-50
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    • 1997
  • A new variable wing that can be swept back and forward synchronously were developed to enhance the aerodynamic and stability characteristics of a high speed airplane. The configuration of the new variable wing changes in such a way that inner part of the wing sweeps forward and outer part of the wing sweeps backward, the shift of aerodynamic center of the wing is small, therfore the static margin that is required for the stability of a airplane is not affected. In this study, various configurations of wing models by combined swept back and forward were designed and a wind tunnel tests were conducted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of these variable wings. The experimental results showed that the variable wing by combined swept back and forward has no effect on the pitching moment coefficient affecting on an aircraft stability margin and enhance the aerodynamic characteristics for a given approach angle of attack.

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Uncertainty Analysis for Subsonic Wind Tunnel Testing (아음속풍동 시험에서의 불확도 해석)

  • Kwon, Ki-Jung;Sung, Bong-Zoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2002
  • Aerodynamic results for an airplane model produced in a subsonic wind tunnel testing inadvertently include errors which are added during model preparation, data acquisition, manipulation, and/or describing the results. Predicting or analyzing uncertainty for the final results is necessary for trusting them and for applying them to real airplane. This paper describes the analytic and systematic method for calculating and describing the uncertainties of aerodynamic coefficients.

Satellite data validation system using RC helicopter

  • Honda, Yoshiaki;Kajiwara, Koji
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.746-749
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    • 2002
  • This paper is introducing a radio control helicopter as a new platform of ground truth measurement. This helicopter is normally used for spraying an agricultural chemical. It can do pinpoint hovering and programing flight using DGPS etc., A spectrometer with dual port can measure ground surface and white reference plate at the same time. And it can also take digital images by digital camera. It is needed to collect ground reflectance information as satellite sensor footprint size for satellite data validation. Generally it is possible to get such ground reflectance by an airplane measurement. But it is high cost and not so easy to make a measurement by airplane. Developed validation system can provide such ground reflectance in low cost and easy.

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Design and analysis fo wind turbine airfoils (풍력블레이드용 에어포일세트의 설계 및 해석)

  • Shin, Hyung-Ki;Kim, Seok-Woo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.362-365
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    • 2007
  • In wind turbine blades, airfoils are required to have different spec when compared with airplane airfoil. Airfoils for wind turbine blade must have a high lift-to-drag ratio, moderate to high lift and especially low roughness sensitivity. Also an operation Re. No.s are lower than conventional airplane airfoils. At mid-span and inboard region, structural problems have to be considered. Especially, for stall regulated type, moderate stall behavior is essential part of design. For these reasons, airfoil design for HAWT blade is essential part of blade design. In this paper, root airfoil and tip airfoil are discussed. For a root region, 24% thickness airfoil is designed and for a top region, 12% thickness ratio is done. A inverse design method and panel method are used for rapid airfoil design. In this paper, a design method, features of airfoil shape and characteristics are discussed.

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Adaptable conceptual aircraft design model

  • Fioriti, Marco
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.43-67
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a new conceptual design model ACAD (Adaptable Conceptual Aircraft Design), which differs from the other models due to its considerable adaptability to the different classes of aircraft. Another significant feature is the simplicity of the process which leads to the preliminary design outputs and also allowing a substantial autonomy in design choices. The model performs the aircraft design in terms of total weight, weight of aircraft subsystems, airplane and engine performances, and basic aircraft configuration layout. Optimization processes were implemented to calculate the wing aspect ratio and to perform the design requirements fulfillment. In order to evaluate the model outcomes, different test cases are presented: a STOL ultralight airplane, a new commuter with open-rotor engines and a last generation fighter.

The Study of FAA's certification policy for approving the ground use of deicing/anti-icing fluids on airplane (항공기용 결빙방지액의 지상 사용승인을 위한 FAA의 최근 인증정책 연구)

  • Kim, You gwang
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2013
  • This study describes the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) certification policy for approving the use of Type II, III, and IV deicing/anti-icing fluids on small category airplanes. These fluids can be characterized as non-Newtonian, pseudo-plastic fluids, also known as "thickened" fluids. Deicing fluids are used before takeoff to remove frost or ice contamination, while anti-icing fluids are used before takeoff to prevent frost or ice contamination from occurring for a period of time(referred to as "holdover time") after application. Thickened deicing/anti-icing fluids can affect airplane performance and handling characteristics and their residue may cause stiff or frozen flight controls. This study also describes an approval process that may be used by type certificate holders and applicants for a type certificate under parts 23 to support operational use of these fluids on their airplanes.

Study on dynamics of the cross-couplig phenomenon between longitudinal and lateral motion (종/횡운동 coupling 상태에 대한 비행역학 연구)

  • 김성관;하철근
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.1300-1303
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    • 1996
  • In this paper a typical problem is examined that a light, general aviation airplane, such as Cessna or Navion, in gliding turn flight shows helical-dive phenomenon when pilots try to stop the descent by using elevator only. It is known from pilot's experience that in a certain flight trim it is impossible to recover from helical-dive by using elevator only. From this study it is shown that helical-dive phenomenon is involved with longitudinal/lateral dynamics coupling to airplane's aerodynamics. Also this phenomenon consists of three parts of flight dynamics; first of all, fast longitudinal motion occurs, then is followed by a little slow lateral motion, and finally logitudinal/lateral coupled motion is fully developed.

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