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Some Effects of Design Load Distribution on the Off-design Behaviour of Slender Wings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

L. C. Squire
L. C. Squire*
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
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Summary:

In order to trim a supersonic aircraft in the cruise condition it is often most efficient from the viewpoint of economic performance, for which a low drag is necessary, to use a cambered wing. The camber is designed to produce a chosen load distribution, but there is a wide range of suitable distributions. In view of this freedom of choice an investigation of the variation of Cm0 with design load has been made for a particular family of cambered delta wings. The calculations show that from the range of possible design load distributions it should be possible to choose one which results in Cm0 varying approximately in some desired way. Thus In principle It should be possible to choose a load distribution which satisfies the design requirements and results in improved off-design behaviour.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 656 , August 1965 , pp. 567 - 572
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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