Aircraft Design Course Supplementary Material
Course Information
Cathay Pacific L-1011 on the notorious approach to Runway 13 at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong. The new airport is located at Chek Lap Kok.
American Airlines DC-10 on final approach
Course documents
Grading criteria
Mid-term oral presentation
Final report and presentation
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Final presentation guidelines
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Final presentation schedule
Sample Requests For Proposals (RFPs). Mission profiles are defined in a separate document (see below)
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More RFPs
Mission profiles
Course instructor
The Lockheed L-1011 and Douglas DC-10 were both designed to meet the American Airlines requirement for an ORD-LAX widebody. The commercial aircraft industry might be very different today if either company had looked beyond that requirement, considered the future growth in big high bypass ratio fan engines, and built a twin-engined aircraft instead.
