The present paper aims to assess the reliability and the limitations of analysing flight stability of a box-wing aircraft configuration known as PrandtlPlane by means of methods conceived for conventional aircraft and well known in the literature. Results obtained by applying vortex lattice methods to PrandtlPlane configuration, validated previously with wind tunnel tests, are compared […]
Flight Mechanics
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Flight dynamics model for preliminary design of PrandtlPlane wing configuration with sizing of the control surfaces”
This paper deals with the evaluation of the flight dynamics response of aircraft with a PrandtlPlane configuration by means of simple models to be used during the preliminary design. The study is completed by method that allows an initial sizing of the elevator and the aileron in such the way adequate requirements can be achieved: […]