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Multirole Cargo Aircraft Options and Configurations
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Aerospace Meeting
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English
Abstract
A future requirements and advanced market evaluation study indicates derivatives of current wide-body aircraft, using 1980 advanced technology, would be economically attractive through 2008, but new dedicated airfreighters incorporating 1990 technology, would offer little or no economic incentive. They would be economically attractive for all payload sizes, however, if RD and T costs could be shared in a joint civil/military arrangement. For the 1994-2008 cargo market, option studies indicate Mach 0.7 propfans would be economically attractive in trip cost, aircraft price and airline ROI.
Spanloaders would have an even lower price and higher ROI but would have a relatively high trip cost because of aerodynamic inefficiencies. Dedicated airfreighters using propfans at Mach 0.8 cruise, laminar flow control, or cryofuels, would not provide any great economic benefits. Air cushion landing gear configurations are identified as an option for avoiding runway constraints on airport accommodation of very large airfreighters. For all options, significant technology requirements and/or operational constraints are noted.
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Conner, D. and Vaughan, J., "Multirole Cargo Aircraft Options and Configurations," SAE Technical Paper 791096, 1979, https://doi.org/10.4271/791096.Also In
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