Airframe design for "Silent Aircraft"

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 5403-5417

  Hileman, J I ^a,c,d   Spakovszky, Z S ^a,c,d   Drela, M ^a,c,d   Sargeant, M A ^b,d,e  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Engineering Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRPORTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; NOISE ABATEMENT;

AERODYNAMIC DESIGN; AIRFRAME DESIGN; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; MISSION ANALYSIS;

AIRFRAMES;

EID: 34250832150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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