Aircraft Design

Course content

In this course students will learn, how to design a transport aircraft from scratch based on the given top-level requirements. Such a procedure includes initially developing the aircraft geometry. For this purpose, students will learn the theoretical background required to initiate the aircraft configuration, as well as practical skills to use state of the art software for aircraft configuration development. In addition to that, the students will be able to determine the aircraft geometrical parameters, such as the required wing area and the dimensions of the wing, tail, fuselage, landing gears, etc. After developing the initial configuration, the students will learn how to perform more detailed analysis to evaluate the performance of their aircraft. This evaluation includes, weight estimation of the aircraft, aerodynamic assessment of the aircraft, stability and control analysis of the aircraft, etc. In-house tools as well as additional open source software will be distributed to the students and in-depth tutorials are offered to them to train the student using those tools to support their design activity. At the end of the course students will be able to simulate their aircraft in a flight simulator software offered to them during the course and digitally fly it!