A mass-economic assessment of replacement of aviation kerosene with cryogenic fuel is carried out based on the analysis of the mass sensitivity to the initial change in the aircraft parameters and on an example of transferring the Tu-204 aircraft to liquefied natural gas (Tu-206 project).
There are presented some examples where the primary conclusions on features of the objects tested were wrong because of using the unwarranted idealized models.
The study is devoted to the creation of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the most efficient from economic and environmental points of view. In connection with the vital need to switch to environmentally friendly vehicles, this research analyzes the possibility of using a cryogenic fuel (CF) for UAVs with piston or gas turbine engines. The numerical studies’ analyses of the takeoff weight of the currently widely used UAV MQ-9 Reaper show the practical impossibility of using liquefied hydrogen and the low efficiency of using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for similar UAV with takeoff weight up to 5 tons.
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