University of Tripoli

Faculty of Engineering
Aeronautical Department

Aircraft Design (AE465)

Assignment due -02:00 PM -Sunday September 15th, 2015
Consider a twin-engine turbofan regional transport with the following specifications.
1. Find out the component weight estimation (use two difference Methods)
a. Structure weight
b. Power plant weight
c. Fixed Equipment
2. Find out The Drag Polar for the following Configurations using the component drag build-up
method
a. Take off speed
Table-1 Specification information
Specification
Descriptions
Pay load

50 passengers Two pilot 3 attendant at 175 Ibs each 30 Ib

Rang

Climb

at 75% power, at an altitude of 30,000 ft and Mach 0.75 = 1750 nm

Fuel reserve 45 min waiting + 100 nm for alternative airport at 9000 ft
and speed of 220 kts
Mach = 0.75 at an altitude of 30000 ft and with 75% of maximum power
Maximum cruise speed of Mach 0.78 at 30,000 ft
20 mins. to 35,000 ft

Take off

MTOW 6500 ft at S / L to 35 ft height

Landing

WL = 0.89 WTO 4462 ft at S / L

Power Plants :

2 AE 3007 A1 Rolls-Royce, 7580 lbf Takeoff 5min

thrust per engine Maximum Continuous 6820 Ibf Dry weight 1657 lbs
FAR 25

Cruise speed:

Certification :
Limit Load
factor

loiter
Cruise

Fly to alternate
climb
descend

warmup

Takeoff
Taxi

Landing
taxi
shutdown

Figure 1 Aircraft design Mission

Maximum Design Taxi Weight
45636 Ib
Operating Empty Weight
26339 Ib
Maximum Design Landing Weigh
41226 Ib
Maximum Design Zero Fuel Weigh 37699 Ib
Maximum Design Take-off Weight
45415 Ib
Maximum Payload
11359 Ib
Maximum Cargo Volume
325 ft3
Usable Fuel
9202 Ib
Note that for clarity some dimensions have been rounded off
All geometric data was obtained using the three-view in a manner shown in 3 view The reader can easily
generate data tables of similar nature for any missing dimensions using such basics

Wing
Area
Aspect Ratio
Span
Sweep Angle
Taper Ratio
Airfoil Root
Airfoil Tip
Dihedral angle
Incidence angle Root
Incidence angle Tip
Chord ratio
span ratio
Chord ratio
Flap span ratio
Fuselage
Total Length
Length of pressurized section
Outside diameter

551
ft
7.8
65 ft 9 in
@1/4 (21.72 o)
0.25
14%
9.5%
(5 o)
(1o)
(-1.5o)
Alieron
0.307
0.68-0.98
Inner Flap
0.1125-0.312

Horizontal Tail
120.6
ft2
5.0793
24ft 9 in
LE (20 o)
0.625

Vertical Tail
77.5
ft2
1.6392
11.271ft
LE(40 o)
0.554

(-2o)
Elevator

0.4
0-1
Outer Flap
0.3125-0.675

(91 ft 8 in)
(76 ft 2 in)
(7 ft 6 in)

Figure 1 fuselage gross section

Rudder

0.33
0-0.77
Spoiler
1.44 ft
0.1125-0.312

Figure 2 - Aircraft Three View

Figure 3 Landing gear footprint