25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-1.6.3

OPTIMISING TRANSPORT FLYING WINGS

R. Martinez-Val, E. Perez, J. Perez, F. J. Palacin
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Keywords: flying wing, optimisation, direct operating cost, conceptual design

The present paper aims at optimising the medium size transport flying wing, a new promising aircraft concept, which exhibits great advantages over conventional airliners. The optimisation focuses on the configuration itself and on mathematical links between initial specifications and main parameters and design variables.

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