Research and development of transport category aircraft

Introduction

Both Airbus and Boeing are seeking the most appropriate applications of the manufacturing techniques that are very innovative . For instance the Airbus aircraft manufacturing company was the first to introduce the laser beam welding on their civil aircrafts and it has also made use of the other advanced methods

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The

decision of designing the aircraft

In making the decision on designing the aircraft there is a preliminary design that is established so as further clarify the goals as well as the objectives of the product and it is also very useful in the in the development of the mission evaluation tools and methods . Similarly the preliminary design helps in the definition of the wide range configurations and also the technological options and it also assists in performing the trade studies and also a baseline configuration for the negotiations with customers . The decision making process involves the following tasks

Establishing the objectives

The baseline current system performance

Performing the mission analysis

Development of the operational concepts

Analysis of the required performance

Performance of the trade studies

Planning the system transition

The airspace system design tools

The setting of the parameters

There are several processes that are involved in setting the aircrafts parameters since more parameters have been included since the flight simulator 2000 was introduced (National Civil Aviation Review Commission 1997 : The parameters include

The aircraft reaction to contact -the aircraft can be configured as well as be adjusted so that it can react to the various kinds of contacts including the landing gear contact and articulation as well as the steering , breaking and the accrued damage via excessive speed

The aircrafts flap articulation- in the configuration of the flap articulation the normal flaps extension or its retraction can be specified in seconds . The aircrafts flaps can be severely damaged if it is flown above the airspeed that is indicated and similarly very slow and also inhibited movements may also evidence the aircrafts damage

The aircrafts exits-the aircrafts exit rate is the percentage per second to open

The aircrafts folding wings

The aircrafts arresting gear- This parameter can be configured by the use of the adjust term in increasing and decreasing the tension of the cables adjustments for the aircraft . However the tension of the cables can be automatically configured as per the specific mass of the aircraft and the normal speed approach of an aircraft . Thus the adjust term is correctly used at the default value of 1 .0

The landing signal officer-This parameter looks at the speed at which the aircraft lands on the career deck based on its specific characteristics

The propeller rotation- in setting this parameter the rotation of the individual player of the flyable aircrafts propeller should be adjustable . Thus the generated thrust by a given...