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NextGen Aircraft Design is Key to Aviation Sustainability Seen here in a California wind tunnel is an aircraft design developed by NASA and Boeing for the Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research Project. Now known as the Transonic Truss Braced Wing, this design is what the next generation airliner might look like. Credits: NASA Ames / Dominic Hart

The engineering of a new aircraft today is deeply immersed in the digital world. A digital mock-up is at the centre, with team members using virtual and artificial reality in helping to define the aircraft's master geometry and determining the location of systems and equipment. Another important function of the digital mock-up is enabling teams responsible for design supportability to assess how easily maintenance operations can be performed once the airplane is in service

The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft. Similar to, but more exacting than, the usual engineering design process, the technique is highly iterative, involving high level configuration tradeoffs, a mixture of analysis and testing and the detaile

The first stage of aircraft design is conceptual design. This is the very beginning of the design process in which rough sketches are created with respect to the aircraft's configurations. Designers seek to achieve a design that meets all of the aircraft's requirements, including aerodynamics, propulsion, performance, structural systems, control systems and more. Designers must also consider elements such as the shape of the aircraft's fuselage, wing location, enginesize and