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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 02, 2007
Corey Hagemeister, Andover, KS (US);
David C. Aronstein, Rose Hill, KS (US);
Kurt L. Schueler, Lawrence, KS (US);
Corey Hagemeister, Andover, KS (US);
David C. Aronstein, Rose Hill, KS (US);
Kurt L. Schueler, Lawrence, KS (US);
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, Wichita, KS (US);
Abstract
Methods for configuring aircraft that may be implemented to integrate aircraft sonic boom constraint requirements with the design process for a supersonic aircraft, for example, to reconcile a target sonic boom constraint with the internal layout and balance of the aircraft during the design phase. The disclosed methods may advantageously be employed in one embodiment to allow a sonic boom-constrained aircraft design configuration solution to be reached that incorporates a desired sonic boom signature with the requirements of an internal configuration layout. Resulting aircraft configurations may be usefully employed for achieving sonic boom suppression on any type of supersonic-capable aircraft, for example, a civil supersonic business aircraft.