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What Drives Unique Configurations
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This paper presents examples of how severe and/or novel design requirements can ‘drive’ an airplane designer to select a ‘unique’ configuration.
Examples to illustrate this are given for the flying wing, for two- and for three-surface canards and for joined wing airplane configurations. Brief historical reviews are also provided.
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Roskam, J., "What Drives Unique Configurations," SAE Technical Paper 881353, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/881353.Also In
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