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This document discusses various futuristic wing configurations for aircraft, including oblique wings, blended wing bodies, joined wings, and morphing wings. It provides details on the design and functioning of each type of wing, as well as their potential advantages and challenges. Implementation efforts by organizations like NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are also mentioned. The conclusion suggests that blended wing bodies may be the future of commercial aviation, while joined wings and oblique wings could be useful for UAVs, and continued development of morphing wing technology may significantly impact the aviation field.

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Futuristic Aircraft Wing Configurations Presentation

This document discusses various futuristic wing configurations for aircraft, including oblique wings, blended wing bodies, joined wings, and morphing wings. It provides details on the design and functioning of each type of wing, as well as their potential advantages and challenges. Implementation efforts by organizations like NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are also mentioned. The conclusion suggests that blended wing bodies may be the future of commercial aviation, while joined wings and oblique wings could be useful for UAVs, and continued development of morphing wing technology may significantly impact the aviation field.

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FUTURISTIC AIRCRAFT

WING CONFIGURATIONS
GUIDED BY Presented by
SUNAND.C ASWITH.R.SHENOY
Lecturer Mech Engg M7 A
S.N.G.C.E Roll NO : 19
introduction

 Improvments in conventional aircraft


 Incorpartion of emerging technologies
 Responding to new demands and

challenges
 Adaptations to future situations
 Attaining newer heights .
Aircraft wing basics

 LIFT

 DRAG

 WEIGHT

 THRUST

 ASPECT RATIO
Functions of wings
 Generating lift
 For stability and control
 For achieving basic movements
 For landing
Invention of swept wing
 Introduced By Germany Later Stages Of
World War
 Achieves Greater Speeds
 Later Developed By USA
 Basis Of Modern Aviation
SOME BASIC WING CONFIGURATIONS

 StraightWing
 Swept Wing
 Delta Wing
 Flying Wing
 Joined Wing
 Oblique Wing
 Blended Wing Body
Wing Configurations For Future

 Oblique Wing
 Blended Wing Body
 Joined Wing
 Morphing Wing Technology
Oblique wing
 Oblique wing is A type of swing wing
 Designed to rotate on the centre pivot
 Alter its planform for various flight conditions
 At supersonic one tip is swept forward while the other tip is
forward swept
 At subsonic speeds it would fly with its body-wing
perpendicular to its direction of flight like A traditional airplane
Oblique wing design on NASA AD 1
Advantages of oblique wings

 Minimal lift induced drag at all regimes

wing span vs length of conventional and oblique wing

 Distributes the lift over about twice the


wing length as a conventional swept
Advantages of oblique wings contd ….

 Structural stability
 Distributes the lift over about
twice the wing length as a
conventional aircraft
 Efficient storage on a carrier
deck that may be appealing to
navy aircraft.
Challenges of oblique wing

 Coupling action makes controlling difficult


 Pivot design constraints-not easy to rotate a

wing at supersonic speeds


 Dynamic aeroelastic phenomena -flutter and

buffeting is observed
 The perceived risk for a manned aircraft
IMPLEMENTATION OF OBLIQUE WING

 Only one manned aircraft, the NASA AD-1


 Another aircraft so far produced is Northrop
Grumman Switchblade
 A dual hull passenger aircraft is also been
developed
Northrop Grumman Switchblade

Proposed dual hull oblique wing passenger aircraft


blended wing body (bwb)
Fuselage resembles a flattened sphere that tapers down and blends

into the outboard wings


Closely resembeles to the flying wing
 Blended wing/body aircraft have a flattened and airfoil shaped

body
First created by the commercial aircraft division of McDonnell

Douglas (MDD)
Later developed by NASA and Boeing

Proposed dual hull oblique wing passenger aircraft


Advantages of BWB
 Inherent in a BWB airliner is it strength
 Reduces the load on the outboard wing section airfoils
 Could carry from 450 to 800 passengers and achieve fuel
savings of over 20 percent

An overview of seating capability of bwb design


 Very resilient bending structure
 Exhaust noise will not be reflected off the wing undersurface
 Little additional airframe noise
CHALLENGES OF THE BWB

 Integration various design disciplines


 Less inherent flight stability than the tube design
 A lack of passenger side windows
 A layout that moves passengers and cargo off the aircraft's
centerline, which exaggerates the vertical motion felt when the
plane rolls to turn.
 Absence of tail creates challenges for stability and control
 Forward mounted engines creates the difficulties with propulsion
and airframe integration
IMPLEMENTATION OF BWB
 Considered to be future of civil aviation
 The BWB was first created by the commercial aircraft division of
McDonnell Douglas (MDD)
 Considered to be best replacement for Boeing 747
 In the future.
 NASA and Boeing developed a test model called X-48

Experimental model of the Boeing X-48


JOINED WING

 That incorporates tandem wings arranged to form


diamond shapes in both plan and front views

 Its tail wing swept forward to be joined with the


rearward swept main wing
 The wings form a diamond when viewed from the
top or head-on.
Advantages of joined wing
 Light weight
 High stiffness
 Lower induced drag
 Better stability and control
 Short-take-off and landings
CHALLENGES OF JOINED WING

 Cannot sustain /any/ damage to ANY of it's


airfoil group without essentially destiffening
the entire structural interlock
 A thin wing and then cut it at any given

point, and it will fold completely


 No tails and a hollow wing may affect

response time
 Inherent stucture may affect radar

siginature capabilities
Implementation of joined wing
 Unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs), particularly
as surveillance-type platforms
 Able to give large antennas and 360 degree

coverage
 Also considerd for sensorcraft
 Lockheed martin developing a joined wing

refueling tanker
 A variation includes boeings fluid wing design
Lockheed Martin’s refueling tanker concept

Boeing’s “fluid wing” design


Morphing wing technology
 Utilizing wings that have the capability to
drastically change plan form shape during flight
 Combine several flight profiles into one aircraft
 Perform multiple, radically different tasks by

dynamically varying its flight envelope


 Inspired from birds.

Future aircraft imitating birds wing profile


Advantages of morphing wing
 Adapt to constantly changing conditions of flight
 The aircraft could hang out at high altitudes, but it
could still respond quickly to a threat
 Liberate aircraft from flaps, slats, and ailerons
 Multi mission capabilty
 Stealth by changing the sturucture

Morphing wing design by NASA in various flying conditions


Challenges of morphing wing
 Design aspects of the building of the wings
 Integrationof systems using morphing

mechanisms, propulsion systems, control


systems, structures, and materials
 Requires tiny but powerful devices called

compact hybrid actuators


 Any gaps that appear during transitionas

you open up a joint in a wing will cause drag


 Maintaining aerodynamic balance during

transition
implementaion
 US DARPA conducting a III phase research
 in phase II created following
 “Folding wing” concept, was developed by

lockheed martin
 variable sweep / variable root chord concept,

was developed by NextGen Aeronautics


 Further research still going on
Lockheed Martin’s Folding Wing Concept

NextGen Aeronautics Variable Sweep / Variable Root Chord Concept


conclusion
 Blended wing body may be future of civil
aviation
 Joind wing and oblique wing can be used In

uav
 Development in morphing wing can change

entire aviation feild


reference
 Aero elasticity of Nonconventional Airplane Configurations—Past and Future , JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT Vol. 40,

No. 6.
 VKI lecture series on Innovative Configurations and Advanced Concepts for Future Civil Aircraft by I. Kroo

Stanford University, U.S.A.


 “Blended-Wing-Body Subsonic Commercial Transport,” AIAA Paper 98-0438, by Liebeck, R. H., Rawdon, B.

K.,.
 “The Joined-wing: An Overview,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 23, No. 3, , pp. 161- 178, by J. Wolkovich..
 Modelling and Optimization for Morphing Wing Concept Generation by Michael D. Skillen and William A.

Crossley Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana _NASA archives


 http://www.century-of-flight.net
 http://science.howstuffworks.com
 http://www.google.co.in
 http://www.aviationspectator.com/resources/aircraft-profiles

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