Conception and optimization of human-powered aircraft
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Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Konzeption und Optimierung der von Menschen angetriebenen Flugzeuge |
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Autor: | Schoeberl, Ernst |
Herausgeber: | Wilson, David Gordon; Abbott, Allan V. |
Erschienen in: | Human-powered vehicles |
Veröffentlicht: | Champaign: Human Kinetics (Verlag), 1995, 1995. S. 247-254, Lit., Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Sammelwerksbeitrag |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISBN: | 0873228278 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU199910402258 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
The progress made in fiber-reinforced composities and the resulting advanced aerodynamic design (especially in laminar-flow airflows) over the past 20 years has made it possible to build sophisticated human-powered airplanes with half the weight of earlier human-powered aircraft (HPA). The optimum configuration seems to be a conventional high-wing monoplane with a faired hanging cockpit and an all-moving rudder. At a flying speed of about 8.5 m/s this configuration would have a wing span of about 25 m and a power requirement of slightly below 200W (near the ground). This chapter provides guidance to designers of HPA by considering the design of a future HPA which we will call the Cyclair. Verf.-Referat