23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-1.5.3

FLYING WING CONCEPT FOR MEDIUM SIZE AIRPLANE

T. E. Pambagjo, K. Nakahashi, K. Matsushima
Tohoku University, Japan

Keywords: blended-wing-body, inverse design

This paper describes a study on an alternate configuration for medium size airplane. Blended-Wing-Body concept, which basically is a flying wing configuration, is applied to airplane for up to 224 passengers. An aerodynamic design tools system is proposed to realize such configuration. The design tools comprise of Takanashi’s inverse method, constrained target pressure specification method and RAPID method. The study shows that the combination of those three design methods works well.

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