Design and Performance of a Flexible Aircraft Manufacturing Platform

In conventional “vehicle-focused” aircraft design and manufacturing, aircraft are optimized for a given mission and then manufactured using custom-built tooling. This strategy ensures the highest vehicle performance for any given mission but is inflexible in that accommodating new missions requires...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tao, Tony, Hansman Jr, Robert J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106322
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-0200
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-3579