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Advanced Aircraft Technology (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1046

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Jun Huang

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School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: conceptual/preliminary aircraft design; operational effectiveness analysis; low observable technology
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Dear Colleagues,

Since the successful flight of the airplane invented by the Wright Brothers in 1903, the development of aeronautic science and technology has greatly improved the flight performance of the airplane, making aircraft an indispensable and important tool in human life in today's society. At present, requirements such as carbon reduction and affordability have brought new challenges to current and future aircraft design. Under the premise of ensuring flight safety, the attributes of aircraft such as environmental friendliness, economy, and survivability have received widespread attention. This Special Issue will focus on the perspective of aircraft design and welcomes manuscripts that make significant or innovative contributions to the following research directions:

  1. Multidisciplinary design optimization considering the coupling effect between aircraft disciplines;
  2. Green energy aircraft powered by clean energy such as hydrogen energy and solar energy;
  3. Distributed electric propulsion aircraft technology with the main goal of improving aerodynamic efficiency;
  4. New-concept aerodynamic configuration aircraft and its feasibility demonstration and analysis;
  5. Aircraft survivability enhancement technologies that reduce aircraft susceptibility and vulnerability.

Prof. Dr. Jun Huang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • multidisciplinary design optimization
  • green energy aircraft
  • distributed electric propulsion
  • new-concept aerodynamic configuration
  • survivability

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55 pages, 960 KiB  
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A Systematic Approach towards the Integration of Initial Airworthiness Regulatory Requirements in Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Conceptual Design Methodologies
by Álvaro Gómez-Rodríguez, Cengiz Turkoglu and Cristina Cuerno-Rejado
Aerospace 2024, 11(9), 735; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11090735 - 7 Sep 2024
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 725
Abstract
The regulatory framework of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) has recently experienced an extraordinary evolution. This article seeks to improve the integration of certification considerations in RPAS conceptual design approaches so as to enhance the safety, certifiability and competitiveness of their resulting designs. [...] Read more.
The regulatory framework of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) has recently experienced an extraordinary evolution. This article seeks to improve the integration of certification considerations in RPAS conceptual design approaches so as to enhance the safety, certifiability and competitiveness of their resulting designs. The first part of the research conducts a two-stage analysis of contemporary regulations related to an RPAS’s initial airworthiness. In the first stage, the broad international regulation paradigm is evaluated attending to a set of criteria that are tightly related to both airworthiness and design considerations. The second stage keeps the most promising documents from a design–integration standpoint, which are assessed according to their applicability considering both design and operational aspects. The results of this analysis provide insights regarding the main issues in airworthiness design criteria extraction and integration in design methodologies. To aid the designer in surmounting these challenges, a flexible procedure named DECEX is developed. Considering the documents and findings from the survey, and attending to the scope of the design methodology being developed, it aids in establishing a complete regulatory document corpus and in comparing and extracting the applicable airworthiness design criteria. Two case studies for different RPAS types are conducted to demonstrate its application. Full article
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