Tail Design

Team RAKSHAK, IIT Bombay

Prashant Kumar
Jaspreet Singh
Sai Theja

March 15, 2017

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Contents

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Known Quantities

Following quantities has been known at this stage:

Wing dimensions:
1. Wing area (SW ) = 1.385 m2
2. Wing Aspect Ratio (ARW ) = 6
3. Wing span (bW ) = 288.26 cm
4. Wing taper ratio (W ) = 0.65
5. Wing offset = 5.096 cm
6. Wing mean aerodynamic chord (cmac ) = 48.766 cm
Fuselage and boom length:
1. Fuselage length (lf ) = 80 cm
2. Tail arm (lt ) = 140 cm

Initial Sizing

Tail volume coefficients of vertical and horizontal tail:

lt SH
VH = (1)
cmac SW

lt SV
VV = (2)
bW SW
From statistical data, we have chosen VH = 0.7 & VV = 0.04. Hence,
VH cmac SW 0.7 0.48766 1.385
SH = = = 0.3377 m2 (3)
lt 1.4

VV bW SW 0.04 2.8826 1.385

SV = = = 0.1141 m2 (4)
lt 1.4
From statistical data, aspect ratio of horizontal (ARH ) and vertical tail (ARV ) is
selected as follows:

ARH = 3.5 (5)

ARV = 1.2 (6)

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Span and chord of horizontal tail:
p
bH = SH ARH = 1.09 m

SH
cH = = 30.9 cm
bH