After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• carry out the first steps of an aircraft design in practice
• layout and dimension transport aircraft and its principal components 
• to name and quantify the influence of main design parameters on the performance of the design and their interactions

Development of aircraft technology, comparison of aircraft with other means of transportation, design guidelines, configurative design of the aircraft and design of the payload system (cabin, cargo hold), main design parameters and their influence on aircraft characteristics and performance (mass estimation, sizing of wing and engines), aircraft family concepts, atmosphere models

Lecture with the aim of providing students with a basic understanding of the cause-and-effect relationships between design and quality parameters. Demonstration of the relationships by means of animated diagrams (applets). Presentation of the calculation methods in the exercise parts. Design project in small groups. 

Aircraft Design I is the first part of a two-semester series. Aircraft Design II will be offered in the following semester, where more detailed methods of design analysis are dealt with.   

Assessment of the design project on the basis of the written elaboration and a presentation of the project results. 

refer to literature entries "German/Deutsch" 

Basic knowledge of fluid mechanics and design theory. CAD knowledge is also an advantage.