Search Results

DARcorporation developed an interactive, user-friendly windows based computer program to perform preliminary design and analysis functions for fixed wing airplanes. This paper shows a new development in presenting airplane geometric configuration data in a user-friendly manner. The ease of use will bring computer aided design and drafting methods to people previously not exposed to these methods because of the high amount of difficult computer and software knowledge needed.

A personal computer based preliminary structural design system has been developed for general aviation aircraft. Structural design is coupled with other elements of the preliminary design process to provide a unique and powerful framework for the preliminary design process. Capabilities include structural layout, structural weight sizing and detailed stress analysis. All of these can be applied to a number of built-in (and user defined) structural configurations. The program is designed to reduce preliminary design time and produce an efficient well-documented structural design that complies with regulatory specifications.

DARcorporation is developing an interactive, user-friendly computer program to perform preliminary design and analysis functions for fixed wing general aviation airplanes. The system allows design engineers to rapidly evolve an aircraft configuration from weight sizing through detailed performance calculations, while working within regulatory constraints. This paper shows the main features of the newly developed user interface for general aviation airplane design in a windows based environment. The ease of use will bring computer aided design methods to people previously not exposed to these methods because of the high amount of difficult computer knowledge needed.

The Advanced Aircraft Analysis software package (AAA) is a UNIX workstation based program for the preliminary design and analysis of airplanes. The program began as a research project at the University of Kansas Center for Research with the intent of creating a user-friendly framework for the unique, iterative process of airplane preliminary design. Marketing of AAA began in 1991 and it is now in use throughout the world by industry and academia. Further development of AAA is driven by user feedback and new methods as they become available. AAA combines various methods of design and analysis of airplanes into one application completely controlled by a computer mouse. No prior knowledge of computers or operating systems is required to use AAA. The program leads the user through a path of choices to a point where data can be entered and processed. The structure of the program allows the user to make any calculation at any time given the proper input data.