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Cargo Density as It Affects Aircraft Design
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The effectiveness of design volume and payload of a cargo aircraft is chiefly determined by the available trip payloads and their associated cargo densities.
An economically designed cargo aircraft will encounter, on certain trips, volume or weight limitations, and the average achieved payload will, therefore be less than the average of projected or offered payloads.
A method has been presented in this paper to determine the average achieved payload in a projected cargo operation using the probable payload and density distributions, and its application to economic evaluation of proposed design volume/payload variations has been outlined.
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McConachie, C. and Bajwa, M., "Cargo Density as It Affects Aircraft Design," SAE Technical Paper 640539, 1964, https://doi.org/10.4271/640539.Also In
References
- Bickner R. E. “Cargo Density and Airlift” The Rand Corporation January 14 1957
- Feller W. “An Introduction to Probability Theory” New York, N. Y. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1959
- Canadair Limited - Various research studies conducted by Operations Engineering and Market Research departments on the effects of density on cargo aircraft design and operating economics.