1998/1999 AIAA Foundation Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition: Super STOL Carrier On-board Delivery Aircraft

The Cardinal is a Super Short Takeoff and Landing (SSTOL) aircraft, which is designed to fulfill the desire for center-city to center -city travel by utilizing river "barges" for short takeoffs and landings to avoid construction of new runways or heliports. In addition, the Cardinal will fulfill the needs of the U.S. Navy for a Carrier On-board Delivery (COD) aircraft to replace the C-2 Greyhound. Design requirements for the Cardinal included a takeoff ground roll of 300 ft, a landing ground roll of 400 ft, cruise at 350 knots with a range of up to 1500 nm with reserves, payload of 24 passengers and baggage for a commercial version or a military version with a 10,000 lb payload, capable of carrying two GE F110 engines for the F-14D, and a spot factor requirement of 60 feet by 29 feet.

[1]  John K. Wimpress,et al.  The YC-14 STOL Prototype: Its Design, Development, and Flight Test , 1998 .

[2]  Natalia Alexandrov,et al.  Multidisciplinary design optimization : state of the art , 1997 .

[3]  Ilan Kroo,et al.  Aircraft design using collaborative optimization , 1996 .

[4]  Ilan Kroo,et al.  Development and Application of the Collaborative Optimization Architecture in a Multidisciplinary Design Environment , 1995 .

[5]  John C. Mankins,et al.  Technology Readiness Levels-A White Paper , 1995 .

[6]  Dimitri P. Bertsekas,et al.  Nonlinear Programming , 1997 .

[7]  Kroo Ilan,et al.  Multidisciplinary Optimization Methods for Aircraft Preliminary Design , 1994 .

[8]  T Applin Zachary,et al.  Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Propeller-Powered High-Lift Semispan Wing , 1994 .

[9]  William Chana,et al.  Download - The tilt rotor's downfall , 1993 .

[10]  T. Sullivan.  The Canadair CL-84 tilt wing design , 1993 .

[11]  John W. Rutherford,et al.  Advanced technology Tilt Wing study , 1992 .

[12]  Ilan Kroo,et al.  An interactive system for aircraft design and optimization , 1992 .

[13]  John W. Rutherford,et al.  Methods to determine limits to tiltwing conversion , 1991 .

[14]  Daniel P. Raymer,et al.  Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach , 1989 .

[15]  R. Fletcher.  Practical Methods of Optimization , 1988 .

[16]  N. S. Currey,et al.  Aircraft landing gear design : principles and practices , 1988 .

[17]  Dennis W. Riddle,et al.  Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft - A summary of flight research since 1981 , 1987 .

[18]  M. D. Shovlin,et al.  Selected results from the quiet short-haul research aircraft flight research program , 1982 .

[19]  Dennis W. Riddle,et al.  Applications of Advanced Upper Surface Blowing Propulsive-Lift Technology , 1982 .

[20]  J. A. Cochrane,et al.  Powered-lift takeoff performance characteristics determined from flight test of the Quiet Short-haul Research Aircraft /QSRA/ , 1981 .

[21]  Philip E. Gill,et al.  Practical optimization , 1981 .

[22]  J. C. Eppel.  Quiet short-haul research aircraft familiarization document, revision 1 , 1981 .

[23]  T. M. Williams,et al.  Practical Methods of Optimization. Vol. 1: Unconstrained Optimization , 1980 .

[24]  M. J. D. Powell,et al.  THE CONVERGENCE OF VARIABLE METRIC METHODS FOR NONLINEARLY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION CALCULATIONS , 1978 .

[25]  R. Faure,et al.  Introduction to operations research , 1968 .

[26]  Barnes W. McCormick,et al.  Aerodynamics of V/STOL flight , 1967 .

[27]  M. P. Kink.  Aerodynamic data on large semispan tilting wing with 0.5-diameter chord, single-slotted flap, and single propeller 0.08 chord below wing , 1967 .

[28]  J Pegg Robert,et al.  Summary of Flight-Test Results of the VZ-2 Tilt-Wing Aircraft , 1962 .