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Double Fuselage
Conventionally, double fuselage/multi-body aircraft
have been employed to provide span-load distribution
and accrue the associated structural weight benefits
(reduced wing bending moment) without going all the
way to a "blended wing body'Vspanloader configuration
i.e., providing such benefits via "conventional" (e.g.,
"comfortable") technology. Total aircraft drag is also
reduced, primarily due to favorable effects on drag-dueto-lift (e.g., references 9 and 66-70).
Parasol Wing
This is an old approach wherein reflections of the
fuselage nose shock provides favorable interference lift
and subsequent afterbody region thrust (references 4,
99-102). Estimated L/D improvements are in the range
of 25 to 30 percent Advanced technologies required to
accrue these benefits include flow separation control for
the shock-boundary layer interaction regions and
fluidics or variable physical geometry to work the "offdesign" performance issues. The reduction in volume
wave drag may allow reduced wing sweep and
consequent greatly enhanced LFC application.
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"CONVERTICAR"
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REFERENCES
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Biplane Wing Theory into a Large, Subsonic, AllCargo Transport," Techfest XX, Paper 21, N95-26956,
July 1993.
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