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Cargo transport aircraft conceptual design is one of the aircraft engineering designs, which aims at manufacturing or producing one of the world's leading aircraft technologies. The designation of cargo aircrafts aims at creating an aircraft that can take off, travel (fly) and land with lots of technological ease, while carrying as much weight as possible. For such engineering goals to be met, the designers are obliged to apply the principles of aerodynamics, physics, material mechanics and other most appropriate engineering principles (Whitford, 2000). Nevertheless, there are various challenges facing the design process, that is, budget, time management, and team dynamics, which altogether create some unanticipated obstacles to the entire industry. Moreover, there exists particular forms of industrial competition, which may also lead to fall or collapse of a given aircraft company. In order to overcome such challenges and competition for a more successful outcome, the Cargo Transport Aircraft designers have to adopt, enhance and adjust their design according to the contemporary technologies along the way. This paper therefore, will serve to illustrate the design technologies and process for manufacturing a cargo transport aircraft.
The anticipated cargo aircraft type and size will highly and directly affect the type of materials to be transported, as well as the handling...
According to Anderson (1997), various aircraft types have differing requirements for low containers, standard containers, pallets and igloos. Additionally, cargo aircrafts of the same family have patently dissimilar requirements depending on the type of goods transported that is, being used as a mixed-payload or all-freight craft. A more successful cargo terminal design is one which is best adapted to the aircraft mix it receives over its working life. This denotes a level of optimal fit, as well as the degree of flexibility to adapt the world's technological changes, both in short and long terms.
Aerodynamics
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