Aircraft Design Tutorial: Aircraft Mission Analysis by Example

Remember to SUBSCRIBE and LIKE! The video introduces the basics of aircraft mission analysis, a design tool used to predict the gross weight, empty weight, and fuel weight required for an aircraft to complete a specific mission. This method is presented in the 2nd Edition of my book "General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures." 0:36 Start 3:22 Example starts 9:05 Question 1 - Chain of weight ratios in shorthand 9:27 Question 2 - How to calculate weights at each node? 10:16 Question 3 - How to get weight ratios? NOTE 1: The "video editor's curse" rears its ugly head once again. The empty weight ratio in the problem statement is written as "Wp/Wo=0.55" but should be "We/Wo=0.55". Sorry about that. NOTE 2: Comments are welcome but are censored to prevent viewer chats from spiraling into arguments and name calling. If approved, your comments may take a day or two to show up. The video uses excerpts from Dr. Gudmundsson's textbook, "General Aviation Aircraft Design - Applied Methods and Procedures," published by Elsevier in 2013 (Edition 1) and 2021 (Edition 2). The book is available from multiple outlets. Among those are: https://www.amazon.com/General-Aviati... and https://www.elsevier.com/books/genera...