Boeing Model 768 advanced aerodynamics airliner studies

[hesham]

Hi,

here is some boeing aircraft with advanced aerodynamics,and the first time
in my life to know the Model 768-785B.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19820007160_1982007160.pdf

 

[Skybolt]

Thanks Hesham. I must say the the work you are doing on the NTRS file is precious.

 

[F-14D]

What's interesting, given the technology of 1981, is that the final algorithm seems to say that by applying these technologies, you can get a 5% fuel savings, at the cost of a 12.3% increase in trip time. One has to wonder, again considering the technology as it existed at the time, how much they would have saved just from slowing down in the cruise and descent portions of the flight profile alone?

 

[Aeroengineer1]

This is a fine line to walk for the airlines as slower flight times means that there will be less resources to carry the demand, and hence more capital expenditures in aircraft.

Adam

 

[Skybolt]

It is always a work of compromise: if if you slow down the ascent and descent profile, you have to adopt a less steep path, and you stay more time over the ears of residents (look at the discussions on the propfan noise...). Otherwise you have to use a different wing, with a ot of lift enhancing things. This will rise weight and complexity, und so weiter. Moreover, on brief routes, a 15 per cent increase in flight time would not change much. Take the all mportant Milan-Rome route. Till the merge of the two main providers there (Alitalia and AirOne) the tabulated flight time was 45 minutes. Now it is 65 minutes (they simply used the worst 20 per cent part of the Gaussian distribution instead of the best 20 per cent). Nothing changed. Alitalia is loosing passengers but on account of the economy and of the high speed train competition, not because they declared a 40 per cent lenghenig of the flight time.

 

[Stargazer2006]

here is some boeing aircraft with advanced aerodynamics,and the first time
in my life to know the Model 768-785B.

Just discovered the Models 768-865, 768-868 and 768-869 in this report:

ENERGY EFFICIENT ENGINE FLIGHT PROPULSION SYSTEM - AIRCRAFT/ENGINE INTEGRATION EVALUATION, June 1980
Report from General Electric Company
For NASA Lewis Research Center
Period Covered: Jan 1978 - Nov 1978

 

[hesham]

Great find Stargazer.

 

[Stargazer2006]

More model 768 in this very big NASA report:

• Model 768-102 (baseline configuration)
• Model 768-103 (ACT configuration)

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19840019652_1984019652.pdf

This report documents the first active controls configuration task of the "Integrated Application of Active Controls (IAAC) Technology to Advanced Subsonic Transports"
Project. The performance and economic benefits of a constrained application of Active Controls Technology (ACT) are identified, and the approach to airplane design
is established for subsequent steps leading to the development of a less constrained Final ACT Configuration. The active controls configurations are measured against the
Conventional Baseline Configuration, a state-of-the-art transport selected and defined in a previous task, to determine whether the performance and economic changes
resulting from ACT merit proceeding with the project. The technology established by the Conventional Baseline Configuration was held constant except for the addition of
ACT. The wing, with the same planform, was moved forward on the Initial ACT Configuration to move the loading range aft relative to the wing mean aerodynamic
chord. Wing trailmg-edge surfaces and surface controls also were reconfigured for load alleviation and structural stabilization.

 

[hesham]

Here is the Boeing Model 768-103,and alternative study.

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a304177.pdf