Overall Preliminary Sizing and Optimization of the Metallic Structures of a PrandtlPlane Civil Transport Aircraft The paper aims at presenting and summarizing the activities carried out on the structural aspects of a box-wing aircraft, called PrandtlPlane, proposed as a more efficient alternative to present commercial aircraft. The results hereby shown represent the major achievements in […]
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A new paper published in Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology (Emerald): “Preliminary stability analysis methods for PrandtlPlane aircraft in subsonic conditions”
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 […]
PARSIFAL project: interim results presented at AIAA Aviation Forum 2018 (Atlanta, USA)
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 […]
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 […]