Design Space Investigation for a Small Electric General Aviation Airplane

Brooks, C. E. P.; Salgueiro, Sandro

doi:10.2514/6.2017-1181

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“…In the last years, Colombia has advanced on the manned and unmanned aircraft manufacturing with manufacture plants that have allowed, together with public and private programs as the PEDSAA , PEICA [18], MinDefensa 17 [19], MinCiencias 18 [20], Min-Comercio 19 [21], and other entities, gives the best scenario to take advantage of the experience, and thus, to use the national talent and knowledge to innovate in the manufacture of new aircraft prototypes with military and civil applications as a great market option.…”

Section: Configurations and Design Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The EESS 32 is used as support depending on the electrical architecture and energy management and it's complementary in term of safe (dis)charge rate, specific energy 33 [18] and specific power 34 performance [18]; it contributes also to control the electrical network and to ensure its reliable operation with aeronautical applications, such: Ultra-capacitor, fuel cell, super-capacitors, and Lithium-ion Polymer Batteries. These options are environmental cleaner, quieter, light and easy to fix or replace with refuel times of up to five minutes to one hour [20,41,42].…”

Section: Electrical Energy Storage Systems Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A key assumption in a future model is the packing of all batteries in the nose compartment of the aircraft, because of stability (static margin) constraints [28]. Another way will be getting to pack in the wings, it would most likely result in higher aircraft endurance since this would improve the energy available while not make making the aircraft nose-heavy [20].…”

Section: Electrical Energy Storage Systems Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electric Training Aircraft in Colombia: A Review of Design, Manufacture and Feasibility

Rodríguez¹,

Castellanos²

2020

Int J Astronaut Aeronautical Eng

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In the general aviation, the uses of the electrically powered engines allow the manufacture of new aircraft types with large benefits, such: More efficiency, low emission, easy maintenance, high reliability and low operational cost, which could improve flight times and training programs. The following review article studies the manufacture viability of an electric training aircraft in Colombia. For this, it is analyzed the possible challenges about the configurations and design requirements, systems and subsystems required, sensitivity studies, preliminary sizing and the services and capabilities required for Colombia. Thus, supported in these parameters, some proposals of the best sizing configuration and some recommendations to get ready the national industry in terms of infrastructure, regulation and agreements matters are showed. It will be an open engineering challenge with the opportunity to incorporate the Colombia's science and technology in the electric aircraft world market.

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Electric Training Aircraft in Colombia: A Review of Design, Manufacture and Feasibility

Rodríguez¹,

Castellanos²

2020

Int J Astronaut Aeronautical Eng

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“…The authors of Reference [4] perform cost analysis on the Alpha. Based on their analysis, the hourly operating cost estimates in Table 1.2 were obtained.…”

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“…Airframe cost is based on straight-line depreciation; i.e. the purchase price of the aircraft (given in Reference [4]) is divided by an assumed 4,000-hour airframe life.…”

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A Vehicle Design and Optimization Model for On-Demand Aviation

Brown

Harris

2018

2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference

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On-demand aviation refers to an envisaged air taxi service, using small, autonomous, vertical-takeoff-and-landing, battery-powered electric aircraft. A conceptual design and optimization tool for on-demand aviation is presented in this thesis. The tool uses Geometric Programming, a class of optimization problems with extremely fast solve times and for which global optimality is guaranteed. The optimization model consists of a vehicle, a sizing mission, a revenue-generating mission, and a deadhead (non-passenger-carrying) mission. Cost per trip, including the additional cost due to the deadhead mission, is used as the objective function. Vehicle noise is computed during post-processing using a semi-empirical method. The tool is used to conduct a study of on-demand aviation from a vehicle design perspective.A trade study is conducted between several different on-demand aircraft configurations. Four configurations are viable: the lift + cruise configuration, the compound helicopter, the tilt wing, and the tilt rotor. Configurations with a higher lift-to-drag ratio, but a higher disk loading, generally weigh less and cost less to operate; configurations with a lower lift-to-drag ratio, but a lower disk loading, are quieter. Using New York City as an example market, it is shown that an on-demand air service will cost significantly less as compared to current helicopter air taxi operations. The two most important costs are pilot salary and battery amortization. If these two costs can be reduced (via vehicle automation and reduced battery manufacturing costs respectively), an on-demand air service becomes competitive with current car ridesharing on the basis of cost per seat mile. Therefore, on-demand aviation has the potential to become a system for everyday commutes.Technological assumptions and vehicle requirements, especially mission range, battery energy density, vehicle autonomy level, battery manufacturing cost, and reserve requirements, have significant impacts on vehicle weight and cost. Vehicle noise can be reduced through the careful selection of key design parameters. However, envisaged noise requirements cannot easily be met, even with the most generous long-termThe author wishes to thank all those who contributed their insights to this work. In particular,

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