Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure
Patent
1986-06-27
1988-05-03
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
244123, 244119, B64C 100, B64C 300
Patent
active
047414979
ABSTRACT:
A design and construction method, for a graduated series of aircraft of various sizes, in which development costs are minimized by maintaining a consistent scale configuration from model to model, and production costs are minimized through the use of a universal tooling concept for the manufacturing of detail parts, subsassemblies and components of the airframes. For each model (M11, M12 . . . M1n) of a series size-graduated elements such as the main wing airfoils (31, 32, 33) are designed with similar characteristics and overlapping dimensions. A common set of tools for constructing these elements is built to accommodate the largest dimension, such as the root cord (34) of the largest airfoil (31) down to the smallest dimension, such as the tip cord (35) of the smallest airfoil (33). The maintaining of a consistent geometric-scaled relationship between the wing, horizontal and vertical airfoils of the various models for a specific manufacturer's size-graduated series of aircraft and the maintenance of the structural bending and torsional stiffness coefficients consistent from model to model provides for consistant flying qualities and performance characteristics assuming that the thrust to weight ratios are also maintained constant from one model to another throughout a specific manufacturer's size-graduated series of aircraft. The universal tooling concept provides for a set of tooling to be used by a specific manufacturer for the making of all of the detail parts and the assembly of these parts, materials and components into completed airframes for each model in a specific manufacturer's size-graduated series of aircraft.
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"Tower Hobbies", Radio Control Models Catalogue, Champaign, Ill., 1984.
Corl Rodney
Fox Brothers Limited Partnership
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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