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Airbus A380

Karen Berger

Eric Harris

Rafael Perez

http://www.airbus.com/product/a380_backgrounder.asp30 April 2005

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Motivation for design

The A380 aircraft was introduced tohelp deal with the increasing number ofpeople traveling by air

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Dimensions

1,234,600 lbFull Weight

610,700 lbEmpty Weight

555-800Capacity

0.09t/c

14.3otail scrape angle

45460 ft2Swet

6968.2 ft2Stail

33 deg 30'sweep

0.153taper ratio

7.5AR

9100 ft2Wing Area

79'Height

261' 10"Span

238' 8"Length

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Dimensioned picture

261’ 10”239’ 6”

79’ 1”

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/index.shtml

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Performance

121 ktsVstall

passenger8000 nm

freighter5600 nmRange

43,000 ftCeiling

0.85 MMax Cruise Range

Speed

0.88 MMax Cruise Speed

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Propulsion

Trent 900

http://www.rolls-royce.com/civil_aerospace/products/airlines/trent900/intro.jsp

5600150tonnes

Airbus A380-800F76,500lb340kN

2008Trent 977

8000555Airbus A380-80070,000lb311kN

2006Trent 970

Range (nm)*Seats/Payload

ApplicationsPowerEISEngine

T/W=0.055

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Propulsion

http://www.enginealliance.com/gpintro.html

0.066T/W

81,500 lbs Thrust

Engine Alliance GP-7267

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Controls

2 ailerons/2 actuators per wing 8 Spoilers Conventional Rudder/Elevator

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Aerodynamic data

14.15Static Margin

0.0121Cdo

2.68Cl at tailscrape-1deg

93% on wingat CL=1

load split (Wing/Tail)for trim cruise

4715.5flat wing span load

-0.48905∂Cm/ ∂Cl

101.05cg

115.2np

20.3implied L/D

2.6Clmax

0.492Clcruise

135.74 lb/ftWing Loading

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CL distributionCl distribution

Wing

Horizontal Tail

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

1.4

1.6

-1.2 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0

b/2

Cl

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Additions

No data on the airfoil could be found No band aids are knows since flight

testing has yet to begin Flight tests expected soon and will reveal

needed changes

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References

http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/a380/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380Jane's All the worlds Aircraft 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/index.shtmlhttp://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Collins.pdfhttp://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Weisman.pdf