THE PRANDTL WING EngBrasil（普朗特翼EngBrasil）.pdf

V K I, lecture series: “Innovative Configurations and Advanced Concepts for Future Civil Transport Aircraft”, June 06-10, 2005 THE PRANDTL WING Prof. Aldo Frediani Pisa University- Italy 1. INTRODUCTION Passenger and cargo traffic are estimated to grow by a factor of two or three in the next two decades, especially along medium and long range routes worldwide. From the end of the 80s, an increasing interest was devoted towards airplanes bigger than B747, due to the traffic growth together with the limited number of available slots and, also, to the competition pressure on the airliner companies. In the document titled “British Airways Requirements for a new large airliner” (Proceeding of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1992), it was written that “by the term of the century the B747 will be too small when frequency increases are not possible”. At that time, all the questions connected to the so called sustainable growth were not considered. After a decade, the scenario changed. The A380 new large airliner is going to enter into service and a new attention has been devoted to the sustainable growth in Aeronautics by the European Community which, in 2002, defined the advanced concepts for future transport aircraft. The second part of the title of the lecture series (Advanced Concepts for Future Civil Transport Aircraft) is examined first in this paper, in order to define the innovative configuration aircraft which satisfy these concepts. Advanced Concepts for Future Transport Aircraft. According to P. Busquin [1], “the aeronautical sector needs a long term vision to tackle future challenges”. These challenges were defined by a group of e