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Aerospace Engineering Design And Project Management

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Kingston University London AE 5021 Aerospace Engineering Design and Project Management Aircraft Review Module Leader: Prof. Jian Wang Assignment set by: P.E. Barrington Student Name and KU ID: Ali Bafakih……………….. K1313927 Contents: Introduction: The aviation sector is growing rapidly and it makes a lot of money, as shown in the figure 1, the aviation sector grows about 5% to 6.5% yearly. The figure also shows that aviation sector will continue growing for the next 30 years almost at same level. In 1994, the aviation sector provided 24 million jobs globally and financially provided $1,140 billion in annual gross output (Lee, September 2000). The companies operating aircrafts look for aircrafts with highest performance to make the best profit. The key performance for that is the fuel consumption per passenger kilometre. Figure 2 shows that from 1960 to 2008 the fuel consumed per passenger kilometre has been reduced almost to half, almost 27000 new commercial jet aircraft sold since 1950s (Daniel Rutherford, Mazyar Zeinali, November 2009). So, this report will identify the technology that made this improvements for the fuel consumption in the past 100 years and what the new technology for the next 25 years. Figure 1: Various Air Traffic Growth Forecasts Figure 2: Average Fuel Burn per Aircraft Improvements history: Since 1960, long and intensive analysis for aircraft fuel consumption has been done, the list of improvements and it percentages have been

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