Roadable Aircraft Final Semester Report December 9, 1999 Will Anderson Trevor Bosen Rebecca Gassler Dawn Gray Dave Leasure Gretchen Prem Henrik Pettersson Ashley Carr Gerard Skinner Kevin Cramer Andrea Stevens Scott Luettinger Table of Contents INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................................................1 AGATE .............................................................................................................................................................................1 HISTORY............................................................................................................................................................................1 MARKETABILITY...............................................................................................................................................................3 MISSION.............................................................................................................................................................................3 THE DESIGN TEAM............................................................................................................................................................4 INITIAL CONCEPTS........................................................................................................................................................7 INITIAL CONCEPT #1.........................................................................................................................................................7 INITIAL CONCEPT #2.........................................................................................................................................................7 INITIAL CONCEPT #3.........................................................................................................................................................7 INITIAL CONCEPT #4.........................................................................................................................................................8 INITIAL CONCEPT #5.........................................................................................................................................................8 INITIAL CONCEPT #6.........................................................................................................................................................9 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPTS .....................................................................................................................................11 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #1..........................................................................................................................................11 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #2..........................................................................................................................................14 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #3..........................................................................................................................................17 PROS & CONS..................................................................................................................................................................20 INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #4..........................................................................................................................................21 * INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #5 .........................................................................................................................................21 * INTERMEDIATE CONCEPT #6 .........................................................................................................................................22 PROPULSION...................................................................................................................................................................25 HUMAN FACTORS.........................................................................................................................................................28 COST AND MANUFACTURING .................................................................................................................................29 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES...................................................................................................................................30 SELECTION CRITERIA................................................................................................................................................30 CRITICAL ISSUES.............................................................................................................................................................30 FINAL CONCEPT SELECTION...........................................................................................................................................31 STRUCTURES ...................................................................................................................................................................31 AERODYNAMICS/STABILITY AND CONTROL/PERFORMANCE .......................................................................................32 PROPULSION....................................................................................................................................................................34 ROADABILITY..................................................................................................................................................................34 HUMAN FACTORS/MANUFACTURING/COST ..................................................................................................................35 DISCUSSION.....................................................................................................................................................................36 FINAL CONCEPT............................................................................................................................................................38 PERFORMANCE................................................................................................................................................................40 STRUCTURES ...................................................................................................................................................................42 ROADABILITY..................................................................................................................................................................44 FUTURE PLANS ..............................................................................................................................................................45 CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................................................46 APPENDIX 1: FINAL CONCEPT INITIAL SIZING CODE .....................................................................................I REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................................................II List of Figures Figure 1: Convair Aircar....................................................................................................................................................2 Figure 2: Moller Skycar.....................................................................................................................................................2 Figure 3: Team Structure Composed of Students from Virginia Tech and Loughborough University ...........6 Figure 4: Initial Concepts #1-#6....................................................................................................................................10 Figure 5: Intermediate Concept #1...............................................................................................................................13 Figure 6: Intermediate Concept #2...............................................................................................................................16 Figure 7: Intermediate Concept #3...............................................................................................................................19 Figure 8: Intermediate Concept #4...............................................................................................................................21 Figure 9: Intermediate Concept #5...............................................................................................................................22 Figure 10: Intermediate Concept #6 ............................................................................................................................23 Figure 11: Decision Tree for Final Concept ...............................................................................................................24 Figure 12: Anthropometric Cabin Layout....................................................................................................................28 Figure 13: Final Concept Configuration.......................................................................................................................39 Figure 14: Constraint Diagram......................................................................................................................................41