The 5-Day Aircraft Design

Course

The popular Aircraft Configuration Design Short Course that covers it all!
A broad and intensive course for everybody involved in new or modified Aircraft Design. This class starts
from fundamentals and takes you all the way through the design process including:

- Developing a design in response to requirements

- Laying out the design on a drafting table or CAD screen
- Analyzing it for aerodynamics, propulsion, structure, weights, stability, cost, and performance
- Calculation of range or sizing to a specified mission
- Trade Studies, carpet plots, and multivariable/multidisciplinary optimization, and......
- Learning from your work to make the next design version better!

Prior participants have said...

"Well qualified, extraordinary presenter..invaluable to me as a propulsion company representative." W.
Taylor, Pratt & Whitney
"This course needs to get to everyone..that teaches aircraft design." J. Marchman, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute
"In-depth and detailed insight into aircraft conceptual design - I enjoyed the course very much." F. Ng,
DSO National Lab - Singapore
"Excellent Aircraft Design Short Course!" F. de Magalhaes Porto, Embraer
"Extremely interesting and informative to be exposed to aircraft design from a total system viewpoint."
Dr. Lou Povinelli, NASA-Glenn
"Provides a very good knowledge from the practical real-world point of view - a very good course." Dr. S.
Gangadharan, Embry-Riddle University
"Enjoyed the class from start to finish! I recommend this class to all aerospace design personnel." D.
Smith, 419th Flight Test Squadron (USAF)
I don't have any background in aircraft design. After your class, I have a much better idea of the real
world of flying machines. Dr. Chungsheng Yao, NASA Langley Research Center
"Excellent. Very stimulating." B. Dillner, Boeing
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availability.

This popular five-day aircraft

design short course has been
attended by almost 3,000 people to
date, and has been presented at
Lockheed, Boeing, NASA-
Langley, Rockwell, British
Aerospace, the Swedish Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH),
SAAB Aircraft, Linkoping
University (Sweden), Samsung
Aerospace, and the Chilean
Aeronautical Academy (APA), as well as numerous public presentations through AIAA. Aimed
at the working engineer in an industry or government aircraft design department, the course is
also highly useful for those teaching aircraft design and offers a broad overview of the entire
subject of Aircraft Conceptual Design in an integrated, cohesive, and enjoyable set of lectures.
All required theoretical methods are covered in the course, but the biggest strength of the course
is that it provides a "real-world" insight into the actual practice of aircraft design. Numerous
interesting and informative examples are given - including design failures!

The course covers both the analytical and

design layout skills required for the initial
design of new aircraft concepts and
emphasizes practical aircraft design
including configuration layout
development and design "rules-of-thumb"
as well as the analytical tasks of design
such as aerodynamic analysis and vehicle
sizing. Special topics of interest include
stealth design, VSTOL and helicopter
design, design optimization and carpet
plotting, and use of computers and CAD in
conceptual design.

The course consists of twenty 90-minute

lectures as outlined below, covering
material from Dr. Raymer's textbook plus several additional topics. Course material includes a
copy of all lecture charts and a copy of Dr. Raymer's best-selling textbook, "Aircraft Design: A
Conceptual Approach."

To the right, Dr. Raymer illustrates lessons from the class during a designer's tour of an aircraft
museum (included when feasible).

DAY ONE

LECTURE 1:
INTRODUCTION: Overview of
the design process, requirements
definition, end products of
design.

LECTURE 2: QUICK DESIGN

& SIZING TECHNIQUES:
Methods to quickly determine
aircraft weight and size required to meet mission requirements, rapid aero/weights/propulsion
methods, design trade studies.

LECTURE 3: WING/TAIL GEOMETRY SELECTION: Selection of wing geometry and tail

arrangement.

LECTURE 4: THRUST-TO-WEIGHT AND WING LOADING, INITIAL SIZING: Initial

selection of wing loading and thrust-to-weight (or horsepower-to-weight) ratio to satisfy
requirements such as stall speed, climb rate, and maneuverability. Refined estimation of aircraft
takeoff weight and fuel weight to attain the design mission, and determination of the required
fuselage, wing, and tail sizes.

DAY TWO

LECTURE 5: CONFIGURATION LAYOUT AND LOFT: Design layout of a credible aircraft

configuration arrangement including external geometry, conic lofting, flat-wrap development,
smoothness verification, cross-section definition, and internal layout. Design layout of wings and
tails including airfoil interpolation, trapezoidal and non-trapezoidal geometries, wing location
guidelines.

LECTURE 6: AERO &

STRUCTURES
CONSIDERATIONS: Design
guidance and rules-of-thumb for
creation of configuration layouts
with good aerodynamics and
structural arrangement.
LECTURE 7: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: Design impacts of observability (radar, IR,
visual, and aural), vulnerability, producibility, and maintainability.

LECTURE 8: SYSTEMS INTEGRATION: Design integration of landing gear, hydraulics,

electrics, pneumatics, and avionics.

DAY THREE

LECTURE 9: PAYLOAD, PASSENGERS, & CREW: Design layout of the crew station,
passenger compartment, cargo bays, and weapons integration.

LECTURE 10: PROPULSION INTEGRATION: Jet engine integration including engine

selection, engine scaling, engine location considerations, inlet geometry and location, and nozzle
geometry. Propeller engine integration including engine selection and location considerations,
cowling geometry, and propeller sizing. Aircraft fuel system considerations.

LECTURE 11: AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS: Methods for estimating the aerodynamic lift and
drag from low subsonic through supersonic speeds. Methods discussed include the equivalent
skin friction method, the component drag build up method, Oswald's efficiency factor, the
leading edge suction method, and the Sears-Haack wave drag method. Introduction to
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

LECTURE 12: STABILITY AND CONTROL ANALYSIS: Methods for determining if the
design satisfies essential stability and control requirements including trim, nosewheel liftoff,
static stability, departure susceptibility, and spin recovery.

DAY FOUR

LECTURE 13: PROPULSION

ANALYSIS: Methods for
calculation of the installed net
propulsive force for jet or
propeller-driven aircraft,
including installation corrections,
inlet drag, nozzle drag, and
propeller thrust calculation.

LECTURE 14: LOADS,

STRUCTURES AND
WEIGHTS: Aircraft loads,
aerospace materials and
properties. Introduction to the
Finite Element Method (FEM).
Estimation of aircraft weights and mass moments using statistical models and corrections for
advanced materials.

LECTURE 15: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: Performance analysis methods for level flight,
climb, glide, takeoff, landing, and maneuver. Energy maneuverability methods for combat
analysis and minimum time/fuel to climb. Fighter measures of merit including agility and post-
stall maneuver.

LECTURE 16: TRADE STUDIES AND COST ANALYSIS: Refined sizing techniques and
discussion of industry methods. Sizing matrix and carpet plot optimization techniques. Use of
performance constraint curves to determine the optimal aircraft. Life Cycle Cost analysis using
statistical and operational data. Airline economic analysis.

DAY FIVE

LECTURE 17: COMPUTER-AIDED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: Use of CAD in the conceptual

design environment. Overview of computer graphics methods and mathematics for aircraft
design. Demonstration of conceptual design CAD and integrated analysis and optimization
(RDS-Professional).

LECTURE 18: VTOL, HELICOPTER, AND DERIVATIVE AIRCRAFT DESIGN: Overview

of jet VSTOL design and analysis including concepts and integration issues. Helicopter
aerodynamics, performance, controls, design, and sizing techniques. Design considerations for
development of derivatives of existing aircraft, including performance, weight, and cost
estimation.

LECTURE 19: INNOVATIVE DESIGN CONCEPTS: Overview of innovative design concepts

including Canard, Flying Wing, Joined-Wing, Blended Wing Body, UAV, Asymmetric,
Hypersonic, etc.

LECTURE 20: DESIGN EXAMPLES: Review of prior lessons by a step-by-step design

examples from initial requirements and first sketch to completed configuration layout and
optimization carpet plot, including a Homebuilt Aerobatic Aircraft and a Lightweight
Supercruise Fighter