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Fixed Wing Aircraft Design Tool:

A-10 THUNDERBOLT II
SCAS FREEDOM FIGHTER
SCAS FREEDOM FIGHTER TAIL
GATLING GUN
JDAM MISSILES
WING PLANFORM
CONSTRAINT ANALYSIS


For my fixed wing aircraft design course I created a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet tool which can aid in the conceptual sizing of fixed wing aircraft. For class I used the tool for 2 different projects:
1) Close Air Support Fighter Aircraft - Report
2) High Efficiency Four Seat General Aviation Aircraft - here

The tool is free to use if you have access to Microsoft Excel. Just download the spreadsheet.

Close Air Support Aircraft Executive Summary:
This report will detail the conceptual design and sizing of a Close Air Support (CAS) vehicle to full fill AE 6343 Fall 2007 Project 1, based on 2006-2007 AIAA Graduate Design Competition RFP [1]. The primary goal of this vehicle is to replace the aging yet invaluable A-10 Thunderbolt II, with a faster, higher range capable aircraft. In addition to replacement of the A-10’s, the role of this new air vehicle will be to bridge the gap between the A-10 (CAS vehicle) and the F-16/F/18 (pure fighter vehicle), hence the name Super Close Air Support (SCAS).

To facilitate the conceptual design and analysis of this aircraft a spreadsheet Fixed Wing Design (FWD) tool was created using an energy based approach for aircraft design. This method, outlined in AE 6343 class, Mattingly [4], and Roskam [6] is the basis of this report. The reader of this report, armed with the FWD tool, Mattingly, and Roskam, should be capable of repeating the conceptual design of this SCAS vehicle outlined in this report or any other fixed wing aircraft.
The initially found design solution SCAS vehicle named “Freedom Fighter” is compared to the current A-10 Thunderbolt II in Table 1, and accompanying 3-views are shown in Figure 1, and Figure 2.

Report: Gives details and examples of using the fixed wing design tool - DOWNLOAD

Tool: Is an Excel spreadsheet that the user can conceptually size a fixed wing aircraft - DOWNLOAD



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