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Kirkhill said:Astrodog - I was talking about the SuperHornets.
So was astrodog........F/A-18E and F are "superhornets"
Kirkhill said:Astrodog - I was talking about the SuperHornets.
CDN Aviator said:So was astrodog........F/A-18E and F are "superhornets"
From an engineering perspective, you can't do this unless you want the plane to fall out of the sky. Not everything has a linear relationship, so if you make every diminsion x times larger, you'll increase demands on the airframe by x cubed. If you want bigger, you do have to re-design.Kirkhill said:From what I can gather they basically took the old C/D series drawings on AutoCad and hit the Scale button to create a larger aircraft in all dimensions then adjusted the engines to suit.
I think you are over simplifying the engineers work & assuming it away. An existing design may provide a good start point, but everything has to be revalidated once you start streatching things. In the end, you have a whole new airplane that looks like its predecessor. You'd better believe that a lot of engineering went into creating the Super Hornet.Kirkhill said:Much of the problem with a brand new system is deciding on what you want it to do, and what limitations you are willing to accept. Once those things have been decided, and operations have been proven, the engineer's job becomes much easier.
So, without refrence to any existing airframes, what are the capabilities that a new fixed wing SAR aircraft requires? At what rate must it climb or at what height must it fly or for how long must it loiter? How much space does it need inside?CTD said:Maybe they are waiting for the companys to a actually come up with what we want, instead of what they are telling us we want.
Kirkhill said:Aye well, I'll run away after all and go back to my day job engineering processing plants. Cheers.
MCG said:and I'll go back to writing an my MEng thesis. We can all have day jobs.
MCG said:... without refrence to any existing airframes, what are the capabilities that a new fixed wing SAR aircraft requires? At what rate must it climb or at what height must it fly or for how long must it loiter? How much space does it need inside?
Cdn Blackshirt said:Can someone answer me this question: "If the primary concern is search speed vs stall speed, why wouldn't the competitors just extend the flaps?" Obviously the additional drag would lower top speed and fuel efficiency, but if search speed is the primary hurdle, isn't that a necessary trade-off?
Matthew.