Design and technical characteristics of transport airplane for arctic exploration

The geographic location of the Russian Federation determines regional apartness of the Arctic and Far East territories which are mostly isolated. The necessity of development of the Russian North Polar regions calls for the development of transport infrastructure and specifies requirements to flight...

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Published in:VESTNIK of Samara University. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Main Authors: N. V. Kuprikov, O. S. Dolgov, M. Yu. Kuprikov, B. V. Ivanov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Samara National Research University 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18287/2541-7533-2017-16-1-42-50
https://doaj.org/article/3b0920d109024b099f38ecec862620a9
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Summary:The geographic location of the Russian Federation determines regional apartness of the Arctic and Far East territories which are mostly isolated. The necessity of development of the Russian North Polar regions calls for the development of transport infrastructure and specifies requirements to flight characteristics of regional airplanes, which requires new research and development solutions. Positioning the Arctic territory as an exclusive economic zone on the world political arena necessitates the development of the regional transport network including all-cargo and passenger services for sustainable development of the region. An up-to-date approach to aircraft design should be based on Arctic exploiation requirements, infrastructure-climate limitations and design methods that include methods of moment-inertia analysis, structural-parametric analysis of Arctic-based aircraft taking into account the choice of rational moment-inertia configuration. Synthesizing the limitations and required operation characteristics we designed an Arctic-based airplane that can perform transport operations in the Russian Arctic zone safely and successfully.