Project Horus is the outcome of a semester of hard work towards an aircraft design contest held at the Institute for Aircraft Design at the University of Stuttgart (IFB).
The goal was to design a new long range aircraft with higher efficiency than current aircrafts in use. The approach towards this in project Horus was to use a canard configuration, creating lift at both horizontal surfaces (wings and stabiliser) and to reduce the empty weight by using modern materials like carbon fiber compound materials and a new sandwich concept for the fuselage.
The team consisted of
- Aiko Dühne
- Tim Jagenberg
- Jörn Loose
- Oliver Oeser
- Michael Powelleit
Hi,
This concept was conceived by Boeing product development in the early eighties and termed a “Tandem Wing”. There where many variations on the general theme that also included sandwich fuselage structure, single and double lobe, and carbon fiber thru-out the aircraft.The wing also had trailing edge control segments of common size to be interchangeable.
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