Beginning in the 1990s, orbital flights were conducted using launch vehicles released from high-flying aircraft. Typically, the vehicle, a small-winged, multistage rocket, is carried aloft under the fuselage of a modified commercial jetliner to an altitude of about 12 km (40,000 feet) over open...
. Some less obvious elements of drag include the relativedispositionand area of fuselage and wing, engine, and empennage surfaces; the intersection of wings and tail surfaces; the unintentional leakage of air through the structure; the use of excess air for cooling; and the use of individual ...
This landing gear type is actually the combination of two separate landing gears – the main landing gear, which is located under the fuselage, and the nose gear found under the aircraft's nose. This type of landing gear is commonly used on most large and light general aviation aircraft. It...
and is fish scale type of surface structure which can be attached by adhesive or welding to diverse types of base material such as polyester, glass fiber, steel or aluminum, and can be attached to ships' hulls or aircraft fuselages, or runners, to reduce the frictional resistance of the va...
In cars, trucks, and aircraft, Additive Manufacturing is beginning to transform both (1) unibody and fuselage design and production and (2) powertrain design and production. For example: In early 2014, Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg announced the One:1, a supercar that utilizes ...
Thorpe along these lines worked with Adidas which in 2003 discharged the Adidas JETCONCEPT bodysuit, whose structure "originated from the V-formed depressions right now utilised on the wings and fuselage of common aircraft." The LZR Pro and LZR Elite lines were propelled on 13 February 2008, ...
This chapter provides an overview of the common types of defects found in various structural materials and joints in aircraft. Materials manufacturing methods (including large-scale production) have been established in the aircraft industry. However, as will be seen in this chapter, manufacturing defec...
However, circular-interface types of acoustic metamaterials (CAMs) that could be applied to aero-engine intakes and aircraft fuselages have not been extensively explored. Porous CAMs have been explored theoretically, numerically, and experimentally to investigate their acoustic properties, such as wave-...