25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-6.10.2

PROPELLER INSTALLATION EFFECTS ON MULTI-ENGINE PROPELLER AIRCRAFT DIRECTIONAL STABILITY AND CONTROL

M. J. T. Schroijen, R. Slingerland
TU Delft, Netherlands

Keywords: Propeller, Slipstream, directional stability

Propeller effects on 3-axis stability and control characteristics of multi-engined transport aircraft have been addressed by a very fast Matlab implementation of classic aerodynamic theory. The tool has been validated against experimental data. It requires few input data and is suitable for the preliminary design of the vertical tail.

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