Abstract
Using statistics collected on four successfully-flown solar-powered airplanes, whose wing loadings are comparatively low, sections 1 and 2 of the full paper try to sum up the most basic flight principles of a solar-powered airplane and then perform the sensitivity analysis of its key parameters at the conceptual design phase. With the help of Fig. 7, section 3 explains our energy-centered conceptual design method suitable only for the solar-powered airplane. The successfully-flown Swiss solar-powered airplane "HB-SIA" is one of the four successfully-flown solar-powered airplanes. When section 3 applies our energy-centered conceptual design method to it, naturally no contradiction occurs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 792-796 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - Oct 2010 |
Keywords
- Aircraft
- Energy-centered conceptual design method
- Sensitivity analysis
- Solar-powered airplane