Target date: December 8; 9am.

Your Design Report should be prepared in both a web form, to be posted on your web page, and in a hard-copy form to take around to prospective employers etc.

First, the hard-copy report:

It should consist of the following:

1. A Cover page, showing
a) the title of your project (name of your aircraft,  and the fact that it is the design report in AE1350, Fall 1999). This should usually be in 18-point bold-faced font or bigger if you feel like it. Whether it is all capital letters or not, is up to you.
b) Your team' s names.
c) "School of Aerospace Engineering,  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,  December 1999"

If you wish, you are welcome to put a small picture/drawing of your craft (not something copied from anywhere, please) on the cover.  Or you can put a "company logo" there.  Be conservative in your choice of slogans etc. (for example: "Instructor-killer" would not be in good taste. :-)  ).

2. An Executive Summary. Here, you should state concisely the nature of the project, the mission specifications,  and summarize the nature of the aircraft that you have designed, and give its performance. Also state what is shown in the report (performance over the flight envelop, etc.) No equations, figures, or Greek symbols on this page: just well-written prose.  Pride and enthusiasm are OK, but blatant sales-talk as in "this is the world's best design, buy it now before the price goes up" is probably counter-productive.

3. A List of Contents.

4. Introduction. Here you say that this is a report on a design project done in the Intoduction to Aerospace Engineering course, and introduce the reader to what is going to be shown in the report, and how the report is organized. Be sure to state the fact that you had a choice of selecting one of two classes of aircraft: A long-range strike aircraft in the 50000 to 70000 lb class, or a light combat aircraft in the 20000 - 45000 lb class. And which one you chose.

5. Mission Specification and Typical Mission Profile.  This is where you state the problem. Use a sketch for the mission profile if you wish. If you use a sketch, it should have a figure number, for example, "Figure 1: Typical Mission Profile for the Advanced XXXX aircraft "  (XXXX may be "strike" or "light combat" )

6. Benchmarking. Here you should give all the data that you found (you are welcome to use any from any sources; I do NOT mean for you to use just what you did on an early assignment).  Once you have listed all the craft that you find , related to the specific aircraft that you are designing, give any conclusions that you can find, and list them in  a table. For example, see table below:
 
 

Aircraft Characteristic	Range of values
Weight range	42000 lb - 78000 lb
Speed range	Mach 2.8 to Mach 3.5
Wing Area
Wing Loading
Wing Span
Ratio of sea-level takeoff thrust to Max. Takeoff Weight
Weapons
Payload fraction
Range
Number of Crew
?????????

 7. Weight and Size
 Here you describe how you arrived at the TOW for your aircraft, selected the wing loading, and found the wing area.

8. Engine selection: Describe how you selected the engines for your craft.  Describe its characteristics. Include a graph showing how the thrust varies with altitude for your engine. Also, give the thrust-specific fuel consumption.

9. Performance.

9.1 Calculate the lift-to-drag ratio of the aircraft, needed to fly straight and level, and plot this as as a function of speed for several selected altitudes on the same graph.  Then plot the Speed for Minimum Drag as a function of altitude, for a fully-loaded aircraft.

9.2 Select a fuel weight (make sure the fuel weight  is not more than about 40% of the takeoff weight), and find the range of the aircraft, when cruising at the speed for minimum drag, at 10000 meters altitude. Include the appropriate fuel consumption rates for climb, etc.

9.3 Design Points
Here, give the values of Thrust Required and the angle of attack needed, for several design points.
a) Fly steady and level at Mach 0.4 at 5,000 meters.
b)  Cruise supersonic at  your selected supersonic Mach number, at your selected altitude (say, 10000 meters or 13000 meters).
c) Takeoff on full load: what is the runway length needed at sea-level?
d) Takeoff on max load from a 5000-foot (roughly 1500-meter) runway at an airport 18000 feet (5500 meters) above sea-level.  What is the max weight at this condition? How will you achieve this (what weapons can you carry and how much fuel will you carry?)

9.4 Plot the Flight Envelope of the aircraft,  (Altitude on the vertical axis, speed or Mach number on the horizontal axis) and indicate what limits the aircraft from going beyond the envelope at each boundary. Discuss how you found each of these, show the equations and numbers that you used, discuss the assumptions (where you are uncertain, and what might happen if different values are changed).

10. Configuration drawing. Here, draw the following views of your aircraft:
a) Plan View: Looking down at the aircraft from above.
b) Front View, with the aircraft parked on the taxiway (standing on its landing gear)
c) Side View, with the landing gear extended.

If you feel like it, show a rear view as well, showing the engine nozzles.

11. Discussion

Here discuss whatever you found out.

12. Concluding remarks

Summarize again what is done in the report, and what you found out. This can be more detailed and technical than the Executive Summary at the beginning of the report.

13. Acknowledgements
 Here, state if someone (forget the instructor) has assisted you a lot in getting this work done.

14. References

Carefully list all the sources of the data, equations etc. that you have used. Number the references, according to where you first use them in the report. Where you use each reference, put in the notation, for example,  (see Ref. [3]),  or [3], and so on.  Web pages should be listed in the references with their titles, and their urls. Make sure every url says "http://" at the beginning. Underline the url. Actually, in MSWord, if you start with "http://" it seems to figure out automatically that its a url, so it saves you the work of underlining.

Number the pages, so that you can make your List of Contents.
 

Attach any other graphs etc. that you feel are essential to conveying your message.  One or two spreadsheets may be appropriate, but do not attach bulky printouts.

E-mail me with questions quickly so I can refine this specification and let everyone know.  I am NOT providing a "sample" because I want each of you to come up with your own team's view of what this report should be. There will be plenty of time later in life to be given precise, rigid specification, and plenty of people who thrive on dictating formats to the last decimal point. Above all, please  take pride in this report, and do it for yourself, not just for a grade: you've worked hard all semester, and you want the final product to show it!!!!!
 

Part B: Web Report

Once the hard-copy report is done, go for it, convert it to html, add colors to the front page, put links to pictures of the aircraft that you use for data, or that you just feel like linking. Feel free to "jazz" up the web pages. But please note that I will link to these pages from serious pages of the Aerospace Digital Library, and there is no telling who may view these: it may be the President of the company where you ask for a job next year....(in fact that is very likely). I know that engineers at more than one major aerospace company actively browse the ADL pages already, and this will expand over the next year. Be proud of what you post.