Recently small new aircrafts have been developed based on
SATS (Small Aircraft Transportation System) concept. However, these aircrafts still
have the environmental and economic problems. Aircraft noise especially at
take-off and landing phase, emissions, long runway length, operational cost,
and so on. To realize the future commuter aircraft, such environmental and economic
aspects should be considered more carefully. On the other hand, many countries
with small islands or small land resources for runway require new small
aircrafts for the commuter air transportation. The requirements for these aircrafts
is to be as follows:
1) High safety
2) Short take-off and landing capability
3) Small fuel consumption
4) Quiet operation
5) Low manufacturing cost
6) Low maintenance cost
Flight performance such as STOL, small fuel consumption and
noise reduction should be achieved by the improvement of the aircraft itself,
therefore some new technologies should be developed to meet these requirements.
Low manufacturing cost will be achieved by the mass production like the
automobile factories. Safety and low maintenance cost will be achieved through
the simple system and structure, health monitoring system and reliable
components with high quality management system.
In the present study, a new concept of small aircraft to
meet those requirements is proposed and a conceptual design of new aircraft has
been conducted. The proposed aircraft could provide a new efficient and ecological
mid-range air transportation system, especially between the cities isolated by
the mountains or sea. Such an aircraft is expected to take place of automobile
and railway trains, if the commuter aircraft has advantage in transportation
cost and convenience.
This situation is not limited in business society but also
in our personal society. Also low cost air taxi system with the newly proposed
aircraft could change our social life drastically because our geographical
world will become smaller and economic activities will be more active and our life
will be more convenient.
Moreover recently an Ecologic Aircraft Design concept is
given by “Daphnis Fournier” that needs less energy to travel. Photo-voltaic cells on its roof ensure sun’s energy production. An aircraft consumes maximum energy
while taking off but this innovative transportation is air inflated i.e. it
does not use up any energy of fuel.
The research on Ecological Aircraft’s is at its peak now a days to
develop some cool stuff that will be environment friendly and energy efficient.
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