Assignment on Advanced Aerodynamics 2022

ADVANCED AERODYNAMICS
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SUMMARY
Basic roles played by aerodynamic factors regarding airplane flight properties have been highly
appreciated by the aviation industries. At the same time, aerodynamic has also been related to a
number of accidents. An example of such an instance of crush or accident is Air France Airbus
A330 Flight AF447. Any unnecessary force exerted on the body of an aircraft will make the
structure to shift from the straight line of flight. This unnecessary force is regarded to be the
stress on the aircraft structure. The amount of this force is what is referred to as the load factor.
Though Air France Airbus A330 Flight AF447 was regarded to bear the highest load factor, a
difficulty was posed by icing effects at the time of flight. Some specific loads were expected in
form of aerodynamic forces at the actual time of flight. This paper highlights the possible
aerodynamic causes of Air France Airbus A330 Flight AF447 accident as the case study.

Contents
SUMMARY................................................................................................................... 2
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... 3
METHODOLOGY.......................................................................................................... 4
Primary Data Collections......................................................................................... 4
Secondary Data sources.......................................................................................... 6
Contributions of the effects of thrust to crash......................................................6
Contributions or impacts of Drag to the Air France Airbus A330 Flight AF447
accident............................................................................................................... 6
The effects of weight on Air France A330 Flight AF447........................................7
Aerodynamic load factor...................................................................................... 8
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................ 10
REFERENCES............................................................................................................ 11
APPENDIX................................................................................................................. 13
INTRODUCTION
Basic roles played by aerodynamic factors regarding airplane flight properties have been highly
appreciated by the aviation industries. At the same time, aerodynamic has also been related to a
number of accidents. An example of such an instance of crush or accident is Air France Airbus

A330 Flight AF447. On Sunday 31-05-2009, the air A330-230 registered under F-GZCP within
the management of Air France was found within the AF 447 flight schedule program within Rio
de Janeiro Galeao and Paris Charles de Gaulle. The organization involved 12 crew members on
board who agreed on 2200h as the time of departure. After the development process which ended
at 2210h, the engine took-off with a PNF (Pilot Not Flying) captain at 2229h with Pilot Flying
copilot mostly referred to as PF (Ayres et al 2013).
Initially, the flight appeared to be extremely calm. However, at 0210h the autopilot was
disconnected then the auto-thrust though the controls still remained with the Flying Pilot. The
plane started to assume a rolling motion towards the right direction however the PF applied a
nose-up and an input on the left. The signal sent by the stall multiply initiated with an abrupt fall
in the recorded parameters from 275kt to 65kt within the sped of the basic flight display situated
at the left before observing events of the same on speed indicated by ISIS (Boyd 2015). The
flight control law consciously reconstructed to alternate from normal. This clearly pictured the
influence of thrust.
METHODOLOGY
Primary Data Collections
In order to find the relevant information in regard to the aerodynamic related accident, sample
interviews were carried out.