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WP1 – CONCEPT
PREDEFINITION
Student Aerospace Challenge
(WP1 - Concept and Predefinition of MSV)
Paul PARMENTIER - Pierre AZAÏS - Morand CLAUX
Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard – UTBM - Sevenans
After having received the Airbus Group
prize in 2014, the Azim’UTBM team 2015
has redesigned a new carrier airplane being
able to carry out the MSV mission but also
other missions in order to reduce its
development cost and increase its
production potential. These new missions
are: freight, survey, bomber, maritime patrol
and fire-fighting plane.
Our development has focused on the
multiple missions. Our job was to imagine a
single and optimum carrier for each mission.
We conducted pre-dimensioning each
"carrier
mission"
by
converging
characteristics in order to have a single
carrier. This without degrading either the
mission. As for the specifications of the
selected loads, we approached aircraft
representative of these different missions.
Pre-dimensioning allow us to define the
power of each installed "carrier mission."
This power is of the order of 16000 kW for
MSV missions, freight, survey and bomber;
and 7000 kW for maritime patrol missions
and fire-fighting plane.
For these last two missions, given the poor
performance of a turbine engine operated at
reduced power, it is far better to stop a
motor. Thus, the operational turbine rotates
in the best efficiency conditions. The second
turbine is used for takeoff and emergency in
case of failure.
For this reason, the ability to turn on a
permanent
turbine,
the
push-pull
configuration appeared to be the most
appropriate configuration.
To reduce weight, the carrier plane will not
be pressurized and unmanned. We have
done research on securing reliable
autopilots to our drone carrier.