Design

Weight consideration

Useful Weight Wu Petrol/100 hp 6 gallon/hr

flight hrs 3 hrs
6 pound/gallon 36 pound for 6 gallon

0.8 for 80 hp
1 for100 hp
Total petrol weight 80 hp 86.4
100 hp 108
Occupant Weight 190 per person 380 for 2 occupant
Extra provision
Total Useful weight 490 exact 488

Empty weight 490(1+1.4) 1176

Now the proposed weight of L

So lets say useful load be 510
then Final W is 1224

Landing Speed and

Wing Area
Light sport aircraft limit is Vso = 39 knot = 45 mph for flap down
and Vs = 44 knot = 50 mph flap clear

CL co-efficient of LiftClean wing w/o flap 1.4

Plain flap 2.2
slotted flap 2.8
Slat and slotted flap 3.6
Lets consider plain flap for simple design
Now the flaps are
for the half wing
and ailerons
occupy outer half
of the wing hence
CL to be considered
accordingly
 CL flap down = 1/2
CL no flap + 1/2 CL
with flap 1.8 1.8
CL clean 1.4

Wing Area A W = A*q*CL max

q = A* Vsq/2 = Vsq / 19.77 = Vsq / 391
or A = W/ q Clmax and
for V=50 mph q = 50 sq/391 = 6.4 psf

Hence A= 1232/6.4*1.4 = 137 sq ft clean airplane

for V=45 q = 45 sq/391 = 5.18 psf

A = 1232/5.8*1.8 = 132 sq ft

Lets consider 137 sq ft for final design

Performance Vh = 160 * 3rd root of bhp/A+100 for comfortable side by side t
160 * 3rd root of 100/137 + 100 120 mph
180*3rd root of 100/137+100 135 mph
200*3rd root of 100/137+100 150 mph

Light sport air craft restricts max speed of 115 knot or 132 mph our selection of 135 mph is OK
The usual 75 percent power setting cruise speed at sea level will be
.9 Vh = .9*132 119 mph
the cruise speed will increase to .9Vh= 125 mph

at 7000 to 8000 feet 75 power will be available with full throttle. Above this sruise speed will decrease

Take off and Landing Performance

A simple way of estimating whether our airplane

will have good takeoff and climb performance is to
calculate the wing loading (W/S) and power loading
(W/bhp) and multiply:W/A*W/bhp = P if P is smaller than 200 pound2/ft2*bhp

1232/137*1232/100 =
110.79
The air craft will take off like a charm

Rate of Climb Vz = 7000/W per BHP * 4th root of AR

AR = b2/A the Aspect Ration of wing

if b=30 then 30*30/137 6.57

gives Mean aerodynamic cord of MAC = 4.56
A/b ft
137/30
and Vz = 7000/1232/100* 4th root of 6.57 910 foot per minute
The service ceilling will be close to
Zmax=16*Vz = 16*910 14000 ft
pound for 6 gallon
Classic
airplane Single seat aircraft
Basic with or heavy strong
Airplane simple to (arobatic) airplane
with Very built and withvery heavy
good Simple Airplane adequate equipment and
design with good design strength fairings.
1 2 3 4 5 6
We/Wu 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.7 2
W/Wu 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.7 3
or 2 occupant We/W 0.44 0.5 0.55 0.58 0.64 0.67

exact 488 Considering the average design we have to go for col 4

W = We+Wu = Wu ( 1+ We/Wu)

Now the proposed weight of Light weight sport aircraft is 1232 hence we have margin of 1232-1176 pound i.e. 5
or comfortable side by side two seater
confortable side by side two seater
average design as in our example
Very clean design

tion of 135 mph is OK

his sruise speed will decrease

232-1176 pound i.e. 56 pound