Design methods and configurations for supersonic aircraft

Details Design methods and configurations for supersonic aircraft Design methods and configurations for supersonic aircraft

2007-08-07

2007-08-07

Eldred, J. Woodrow (Department: 3641)

Aeronautics and astronautics

Miscellaneous

C244S119000, C244S120000, C244S11700R, C244S130000, C244S03500A

Reexamination Certificate

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10909001

ABSTRACT:
Methods for configuring aircraft that may be implemented to integrate aircraft sonic boom constraint requirements with the design process for a supersonic aircraft, for example, to reconcile a target sonic boom constraint with the internal layout and balance of the aircraft during the design phase. The disclosed methods may advantageously be employed in one embodiment to allow a sonic boom-constrained aircraft design configuration solution to be reached that incorporates a desired sonic boom signature with the requirements of an internal configuration layout. Resulting aircraft configurations may be usefully employed for achieving sonic boom suppression on any type of supersonic-capable aircraft, for example, a civil supersonic business aircraft.

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