Conceptual design of a box-wing aircraft for the air transport of the future The paper aims to present the conceptual design of a box-wing aircraft, called PrandtlPlane, proposed as an efficient alternative for future air transport. Activities and results described here are part of a research project called PARSIFAL (“Prandtlplane ARchitecture for the Sustainable Improvement […]
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A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Design of a Fuselage-Mounted Main Landing Gear of a Medium-Size Civil Transport Aircraft”
The subject of the present paper is the design of an innovative fuselage mounted main landing gear, developed for a PrandtlPlane architecture civil transport aircraft with a capacity of about 300 passengers. The paper presents the conceptual design and a preliminary sizing of landing gear structural components and actuation systems, in order to get an […]
A new paper published in Transportation Research Procedia (Elsevier): “Preliminary transonic CFD analyses of a PrandtlPlane transport aircraft” (Open Access)
In the framework of the PARSIFAL research project, funded by the European Community in the Horizon 2020 program, the PrandtlPlane (PrP) configuration has been proposed as an innovative alternative to the current commercial aircraft of conventional architecture; the PrP configuration development is presented in order to satisfy the future air traffic growing requirements with better […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “PARSIFAL Project: a Breakthrough Innovation in Air Transport”
PARSIFAL is a Horizon 2020 project, started on May 2017, with the aim to design an innovative aircraft, based on the “PrandtlPlane” (PrP) configuration, for the civil aviation of the future. The PrP configuration allows us to reduce the fuel consumption and the external noise, especially during low speed flight. The high aerodynamic performances are […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “WAGNER: a new code for parametrical structural study of fuselages of civil transport aircraft”
In the present paper, a new code (named WAGNER) for a parametric and automatic Finite Element mesh generation of fuselages of civil transport aircraft is presented. The code aims at providing a time-cheap and reliable tool in the conceptual design phase in order to evaluate stresses and deformations in the whole fuselage structure; these data […]