Bhartiya Sainik
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Since childhood, Aircraft became part of our life in form of toys.
The very sight of it amazes people. Its sound gives goosebumps.
The global R&D in last 100 years has given some exceptional aircrafts of different types.
Numerous documentaries have been made, articles published.
People wonder what leads to a particular design.
Let's make a step by step effort to share our knowledge about airframe design -
- Basic diagram of an airplane
- How airplane flies
- Basic parts of airplane
- Types of airplanes
- Why airplanes look different w.r.t. their body, wings, etc
- Key differences b/w Civil & Military planes
- How a type of airplane is designed
- How improvements take place
- When/Why a design becomes obsolete & a generation leap occurs
- etc
There are many ways to classify aircrafts - Passenger/Cargo, Civil/Military, Fighter/Bomber, Fixed-wing/rotary,
Basic parts of Aircraft visible on outside including control surfaces -
Below is a basic diagram of passenger, cargo jets. It can be said to be simplest design today, a tube with wings.
A fighter jet overall may also have a conventional design with straight wings, tails, rudders, although improved by different shape & angles. The engines become part of fuselage.
On the outsie, there are some other control surfaces like Strakes, LERX (Leading Edge Root Extension), wing fence, Winglet, vortex generators, etc.
There is a Blended wing body concept.
The closest jets to BWB are B-1 Lancer & Tu-160 Blackjack
And then we have the famous flying wing like XB-35, YB-49, B-2
Each of these parts or characteristics have individual massive research. We will try to individually explore them in future posts.
The very sight of it amazes people. Its sound gives goosebumps.
The global R&D in last 100 years has given some exceptional aircrafts of different types.
Numerous documentaries have been made, articles published.
People wonder what leads to a particular design.
Let's make a step by step effort to share our knowledge about airframe design -
- Basic diagram of an airplane
- How airplane flies
- Basic parts of airplane
- Types of airplanes
- Why airplanes look different w.r.t. their body, wings, etc
- Key differences b/w Civil & Military planes
- How a type of airplane is designed
- How improvements take place
- When/Why a design becomes obsolete & a generation leap occurs
- etc
There are many ways to classify aircrafts - Passenger/Cargo, Civil/Military, Fighter/Bomber, Fixed-wing/rotary,
Basic parts of Aircraft visible on outside including control surfaces -
Below is a basic diagram of passenger, cargo jets. It can be said to be simplest design today, a tube with wings.
A fighter jet overall may also have a conventional design with straight wings, tails, rudders, although improved by different shape & angles. The engines become part of fuselage.
On the outsie, there are some other control surfaces like Strakes, LERX (Leading Edge Root Extension), wing fence, Winglet, vortex generators, etc.
There is a Blended wing body concept.
The closest jets to BWB are B-1 Lancer & Tu-160 Blackjack
And then we have the famous flying wing like XB-35, YB-49, B-2
Each of these parts or characteristics have individual massive research. We will try to individually explore them in future posts.
