4.14.6 Empennage Area versus Wing Area (Military)

This subsection, at www.cambridge.org/Kundu, gives a brief comment on military aircraft empennage area.

4.14.7 Aircraft Wetted Area versus Wing Area (Military)

This brief subsection, at www.cambridge.org/Kundu, is on military aircraft wetted and wing areas.

4.15 Military Aircraft Component Geometries

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and describes military aircraft component geometries (e.g., fuselage group, wing group, empennage group, and Nacelle group/intake).

4.16 Fuselage Group (Military)

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and describes military aircraft fuselage group.

4.17 Wing Group (Military)

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and describes the military aircraft wing group with Figure 4.37. Military trainer-aircraft wing group is illustrated in Figure 4.38.

Figure 4.37. Fighter aircraft configurations

One surface configuration: (Figure 4.37a - Mirage 2000 and SAAB Draken). Two surface configuration: (Figure 4.37b - MIG 21 and Mirage F1).

(Figure 4.37c - Eurofighter and SAAB Viggen) (Figure 4.37d - F16 and F18)

Three surface configuration: (Figure 4.37e - SU 37 and SU 47). Figure 4.38. Advanced jet trainer aircraft capable of close support combat

4.17.1 Generic Wing Planform Shapes

This extended subsection, at www.cambridge.org/Kundu, describes how military aircraft wing planforms can be presented in a unified manner and includes civil designs (i.e., from delta to rectangular shapes) as shown in Figure 4.39.

Figure 4.39. Wing planform shape

4.18 Empennage Group (Military)

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and describes various aspects of military aircraft empennage

configurations and available options using several figures (listed above) and Figure 4.40 (YF12, F29 and B2).

Figure 4.40. Empennage options

4.19 Intake/Nacelle Group (Military)

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and gives a broad classification of military fighter aircraft engine-intake configuration, as given in Chart 4.3. Some older design engine positions are shown in Figure 4.41 (P38, B & V141, Heinkel 162, F107, Corsair, and a Tupolev design).

Chart 4.3. Types of empennage configurations

Figure 4.41. Options for engine positions of some older designs

4.20 Undercarriage Group

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and refers to Chapter 7.

4.21 Miscellaneous Comments

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and gives some pertinent comments on miscellaneous aspects of military aircraft design.

4.22 Summary of Military Aircraft Design Choices

This extended section of the book can be found on the Web at www.cambridge

.org/Kundu and summarizes military aircraft design choices and various approaches to it.