Investigation of Transonic Drag Computations in Aerodynamic ...

Investigation of Transonic Drag Computations in APAS
100 ft.
R 5 ft.
20 ft.
40.6 ft.
Figure 11. Trial 3 APAS Geometry
The configuration shown in Figure 11 is that of fuselage 1 with wing 1. The wing
is mid-mounted on the fuselage in order to eliminate potential problems caused by the
space left between wings and fuselages in APAS. Both wings 1 and 2 were constructed
with NACA 65 A 0XX series airfoils, and have theoretical reference areas of 1100 and
1000 ft 2 respectively. The effect of “coke-bottling” the trial 3 geometry will be discussed
in Section 4.1.7. Figure 12 displays the fuselage 1, wing 2 configuration.
100 ft.
R 5 ft.
20 ft.
34.6 ft.
Figure 12. Trial 4 APAS Geometry
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