AE 2356 Aircraft Design Project – I

The Viva Voce Questions

1. How does a tail-first airplane compare in its design features with a tail-aft
airplane? What are the design features and relative merits in each case? Make
use of sketches and plots to illustrate your answer.

2. What are the requirements of an aerofoil of an modern aircraft.

3. How far the requirements are satisfied in an airplane.Make use of sketchesand

plots to illustrate your answer.

4. Consider a new design of airplane, Crew of 6, 150 passengers with 50 Kgs

baggageeach.Make use of std.data and trends for such designs.Estimate power
requirements for a cruise speed of 600 Kms / hr.Assume parameters
accordingly.Provideinitial size and configuration lay out for this airplane.

5. Compare air load distribution over a rectangular wing with an elliptic

wing.Whichone of these is superior and how.Which of these has higher numerical
value of Oswald wing efficiency factor.Hence define Oswald′s wing efficiency
factor and itsvalue for this plan form.Make use of sketches and plots in support of
your answers.

6. Differentiate between piston engine and turbofan engine.What factors affect the
integration of a piston engine?What procedures will you follow for the
integration?

7. Define direct operating cost.What factors constitute the direct operating cost and
how will you control these factors to reduce the cost of an aircraft?

8. Draw the three views and neatly label the various components of a two
seater(tandem arrangement) high-speed jet trainer aircraft having retractable
undercar-riage and cantilever wing configuration.Estimate the performance and
stabilitycharacteristics of this aircraft and compare them with a similar aircraft
havingnon-retractable undercarriage and semi-cantilever wing configuration.

9. (a)Structural Idealization (b)Stressed skin construction

10. Frame specifications for an airplane to perform short hop service in plains with a
seating capacity of 15.Make use of sketches and plots to illustrate your answer.

11. How does a sweptback plan form differ from a swept forward plan form in
airplane performance?Make use of sketches and plots to illustrate your answer.

12. Detail out special considerations in the design of a new military AOP airplane with
a cruise velocity of 350 Kms / hr, Crew of 2..Make use of sketches and plots in
support of your answers.
 13. Consider a swept back, high wing airplane for civil applications .recommend
horizontal and vertical tail arrangement for this airplane with two options of
engine locations. Make use of sketches and plots in support of your answers.

14. (a)What are the various components of a fuel system?Explain the function of
each component.
(b)What factors will you take into account during fuel system integration?

15. (a)Explain how flight testing affects the cost of an aircraft?

(b)Differentiate between direct and indirect operating cost.

16. Draw the three views and neatly label the various components of a two
seater(tandem arrangement) high-speed jet trainer aircraft having retractable
undercar-riage and cantilever wing configuration.Estimate the performance and
stability characteristics of this aircraft and compare them with a similar aircraft
havingnon-retractable undercarriage and semi-cantilever wing configuration.

17. Frame specifications for an airplane for long range with 350 Passengers with a
cruise speed of 950 kmph.Make use of sketches and plots to illustrate your
answer.

18. How are the Cl− Cd−α, characteristics improved by modern low speed airfoil
section. Hence describe one such section in use.Make use of sketches and plots
to illustrate your answer.

19. Consider a new design of airplane, Crew of 6, 150 passengers with 50 Kgs
baggage each. Make use of std.data and trends for such designs.Estimate power
requirements for a cruise speed of 600 Kms / hr.Assume parameters accordingly.
Provide initial size and configuration lay out for this airplane.

20. Compare air load distribution over a trapezoidal wing with an elliptic wing. Which
one of these is superior and how. Which of these has higher numerical value of
Oswald wing efficiency factor? Make use of sketches and plots in support of your
answers.

By Prof. PS. Venkatanarayanan. REC

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