The Influence of Aircraft Gross Weight upon the Size and Weight of Hulls and Fuselages

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In this paper an attempt has been made to trace the influence of gross weight, as the accepted measure of size, upon the dimensions of hulls and fuselages and from this, to evaluate the probable trend of the weights of these components with increasing gross weight. During the past few years the size and gross weight of aircraft have rapidly increased and there appears at the moment little, if any, structural limit upon the size and gross weights attainable, since it can be shown that the percentage weights of hulls and fuselages tend to decrease as size increases.

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