What is the best way to decrease drag and increase fuel economy in aircraft?

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Blog 16: Answer 2


1. What is your EQ?

What is the best way to decrease drag and increase fuel economy in aircraft?

2. What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

By implementing a blended wing body design, an aircraft can produce lift at all points decreasing the effect of drag.

3. What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

By using the box tail design of the Synergy aircraft, the structure of a plane can have reduced vortex drag allowing for more distance on less fuel.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. Vortex drag forms at the wingtips, the box tail alters the wingtips. Commercial aircraft.
2. Allows for efficient and fast flight, because the double box tail would reduce the drag greatly at high speeds. The Synergy Aircraft itself. 
3. It takes the basic idea of a biplane, but instead of the negative penalties that result from that design, by shaping it how it is, it forces those drags to be reduced causing them to benefit the aircraft. This can be used in small personal aircraft.

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

Jahanmiri, Mohsen. "Aircraft Drag Reduction" Chalmers University of Technology. Print. 

6. What other source supports your answer?

The Synergy Aircraft website, synergyaircraft.com 

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.

There is a high probability that a red dwarf star passed through our solar system's Oort cloud a long time ago meaning another star pit stopped in our system. That is pretty cool, space is cool. 

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