Appendix F

General Database for Commercial Aircraft

Throughout this book reference is often made to a database of airplane characteristics when correlations are developed from theoretical considerations and practical industrial experience. This database is a collection of a number of general characteristics of commercial airplanes assembled from the various sources cited in this book. The data that has been gathered and presented here should be considered representative of the aircraft cited because there are many variants of each aircraft and no one set should be considered authoritative. Instead, the information in this database is offered as a comparative tool to aid in guiding the development of airplane configurations and acting as a check ...

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