S.K. Landgraf and R.N. Herring, "Aerodynamic Design Considerations of Variable Geometry Aircraft," SAE Paper 670880, Oct. 1967.
Roy H. Lange and E.S. Bradley, "Parametric Study of Advanced Long Range Military/Commercial Cargo Transports," AIAA Paper 77-1221, 1977
E.A. Barber, L.W. Noggle, and I.H. Rettie, "Preliminary Design and Analysis of Advanced Military Transports," AIAA Paper 77-1224, 1977.
Charles E. Jobe, Robert M. Kulfan and John D. Vachal, "Wing Planforms for Large Military Transports," AIAA 78-1470, 1978.
W.E. Eckels, "Civil Transport Aircraft Design Methodology," AIAA Paper 83-2463, Oct. 1983. A nice description of the design process. We have no good category to fit this paper. It has a quantitative comparison of twin vs. single aisle aircraft.
Kohei Tanaka, "Design Study of Short Range Transport Aircraft," ICAS 84-2.6-1, 1984.
Roy H. Lange, "Design Integration of Laminar Flow Control for Transport Aircraft," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 21, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 612-617. A good starting place for understanding the integration issues associated with laminar flow technology.
Roy H. Lange, "Review of Unconventional Aircraft Design Concepts," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 385-392. Emphasis is on large aircraft: spanloaders, muti-body, wing-in-ground effects machines, transonic biplanes (the box plane).
Jan Roskam, "What Drives Unique Configurations," SAE paper 881353, October 1988. This paper describes the connection between mission requirements and unusual configurations. A number of examples are used to illustrate the various configurations.
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