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| Audience/Grade: | High School Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | Document |
| Author(s): | Tupolev Public Stock Company |
| Description: | "Successful building in the 50-s of supersonic combat airplanes including heavy ones, created a favorable situation to study possibilities for building supersonic passenger airplanes SST). First SST projects took their origin in the first post-war years when in the USA and in UK some hypothetical projects were proposed which technical approaches were too far from practical realization. In late 50-son both sides of “iron curtain” there appeared first prototypes and consequently production supersonic heavy airplanes of military purpose and substantially straight away on this basis leading world aircraft companies prepared projects of the SSTs of various aerodynamic schematics and arrangements. Comprehensive review of these SST projects revealed that building of effective competitive SST by upgrading of military prototype – is extremely complicated task (in contrast to the process of first jet passenger aircraft building basing on subsonic heavy combat aircraft). First supersonic combat mainly complied with requirements of relatively short supersonic flight. The SST had to ensure cruising flight at speeds corresponding to at least M=2 plus specific task of passenger transportation required significant increase in safety level of all aircraft components provided the aircraft is operated more intensively by increasing supersonic modes of flight. Step by step making analysis of all possible approaches aircraft specialists both in the USSR and in the West came to a firm opinion that economically efficient SST should be designed as a radically new type of aircraft." |
| Rating: | No Rating |
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| Publication Date: | November 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Show.asp?SectionID=148 |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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