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The Advanced Tiltrotor Aircraft by Leonardo: Design Drivers and Features
Riccardo Bianco Mengotti,
Luca Medici,
Cristian Lilliu,
Luca Sampugnaro,
Matteo Pecoraro,
Carlo Cassinelli,
Luca Viganò
Presented at Forum 82 — the Vertical Flight Society's Annual Forum and Technology Display
Aircraft Design Technical Session
11 pages
Abstract:
This paper describes the characteristics of the Leonardo Advanced Tiltrotor Aircraft (ATA) concept, focusing on the relationship between goals, targeted improvements and enabling design features. The paper shows the design drivers such as performance, operational capabilities, and maneuverability and it describes how the attributes of the concept originated, showing trade-off and compromises approached during the genesis of the concept. The design drivers are translated into areas of interests, including download, drag, aerodynamic efficiency, rolling and yawing inertia, detectability, maintainability and engine retrofit ability. Finally, these areas are linked to the physical features of the concept, showing how they have been selected and combined to achieve the best overall benefit at platform level.
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