After a 6 months internship at Superjet International (Venice), the student Marco Ciuffarin has concluded a M.Sc. thesis aimed at designing an integrated airstair system for the box-wing aircraft investigate in the project “PARSIFAL”. Reference: Ciuffarin, M., “FEASIBILITY AND STRUCTURAL STUDY OF AN AIRSTAIR SYSTEM FOR SHORT-MID RANGE AIRCRAFT”, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Pisa (2021) […]
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A new paper published in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering (IMechE p.G, SAGE): “Conceptual design of PrandtlPlane civil transport aircraft ”
According to aircraft manufacturers and several air transportation players, the main challenge the civil aviation will have to deal with in the future is to provide a sustainable growth strategy, in order to face the growing demand of air traffic all over the world. The sustainability requirements are related to air pollution, noise impact, airport […]
A new paper published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer): “Preliminary Take-Off Analysis and Simulation of PrandtlPlane Commercial Aircraft” (Open Access)
The present paper deals with the take-off performance analysis of PrandtlPlane aircraft. The PrandtlPlane is a Box-Wing configuration based on Prandtl’s “Best Wing System” concept, which minimizes the induced drag once wingspan and lift are given. The take-off dynamics is simulated implementing the non-linear equations of motion in a numerical tool, which adopts a Vortex […]
PARSIFAL project: two papers presented at AIAA SciTech 2020 (Orlando, USA)
Preliminary design and performance analysis of a box-wing transport aircraft The paper aims to present the design phases of a 300 ca. passengers box-wing aircraft, called PrandtlPlane, proposed as an efficient alternative for future air transport. The paper presents the workflow carried out during the project, starting from the definition of Top Level Aircraft Requirements […]
The proceedings of 9th EASN International Conference (Athens, Sept. 2019) published on MATEC (EDP)
The Project “Parsifal”: Prandtlplane Architecture For The Sustainable Improvement Of Future Airplanes The activities reported in this paper are part of the project “PARSIFAL” (Prandtlplane ARchitecture for the Sustainable Improvement of Future AirpLanes), funded by the European Community under the Horizon 2020 program and coordinated by the University of Pisa (Italy); the other partners of […]