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Airbus A380 
Karen Berger 
Eric Harris 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4183707.stm 
March 2, 2006 
References: 
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29 
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/a380/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380 
Jane's All the worlds Aircraft 
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/jetliner/a380/index.shtml 
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Collins.pdf 
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/A380Weisman.pdf 
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=27 
2 
Geometry 
261’ 10” 
239’ 6” 
79’ 1” 
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29 
Full Weight 1,234,600 lb 
Wetted Area 45460 ft2 
Empty Weight 610,700 lb 
sweep 33 deg 30' 
AR 7.5 
Wing Area 9100 ft2 
Geometry and basic information was from 
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=29 as well as from Jane’s All the 
World’s Aircraft. The wetted area calculation was made using estimates from 
aircraft diagrams in Jane’s. 
Component Title Swet (Ft2) Refl(ft) Tc Icode Frm Fctr Ftrans 
Fuselage 14640.0000 253.100 0.104 1 1.0580 0.0000 
Wing 20896.8008 65.500 0.122 0 1.2307 0.0000 
Vertical Tail 3192.2000 43.600 0.083 0 1.1510 0.0000 
Engine 2955.0000 19.400 0.625 1 3.4501 0.0000 
Horizontal Tail 3776.0000 29.100 0.124 0 1.2344 0.0000 
3 
Other Information 
Static Margin 14.15 ft = 5.9% chord 
Estimated cg 101.05 ft = 42.2% chord 
Cruise CL 0.901 
Minimum CD 0.0358 
Neutral Point 115.2 ft = 48.1% chord 
L/Dmax 20.6 
CDo 0.0121 
Span “e” 0.8689 
Penalties for scaled down span: 
•scaled off the wing area and wing span, the A380 should have a span of 
almost 460 ft 
•Actual wing span is almost 262 ft, meaning a loss of 197 ft 
•Actual wing is only 57% of the span of the desired wing 
Data was calculated from: 
LAMDES – span “e,” minimum CD, cruise CL 
VLMpc – neutral point 
FRICTION – CDo 
Hand calculated – L/Dmax, estimated cg, estimated static margin 
Penalties – calculations were based on a wing area of 9095 ft^2 for the A380, 
and of 3908.4 ft^2 for the A340-200. The span of the A340-200 was listed as 
197.0 ft 
4 
Twist Distribution 
Airfoil Section Twists 
-2 
0 
2 
4 
6 
8 
10 
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 
y/(b/2) 
twist (deg) 
Wing 
Tail 
Airfoil Twist Distribution was obtained using LAMDES. Only wings and 
horizontal tails were modeled (fuselage was excluded). The center of gravity 
was assumed to be the estimated cg of 101.05 ft, or roughly 42% chord length 
for the output. 
5 
Root/Tip Changes 
Mean Camber Line of Airfoil 
-0.5 
-0.4 
-0.3 
-0.2 
-0.1 
0 
0.1 
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 
x/c 
z/c 
Tip 
Root 
Information was calculated using LAMDES, and data was taken for the span 
wise stations closest to the tip and the root (actual stations are roughly 3.5% of 
the half span distance from the targeted location, relating to about 3.5 feet 
away) 
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Center of Gravity 
-25 
-20 
-15 
-10 
-5 
0 
5 
10 
15 
20 
25 
0.035 0.036 0.037 0.038 0.039 0.04 0.041 0.042 
CD 
cg shift (static margin) 
This shows that there is very little change in the 
center of gravity as a function of the change in 
drag coefficient 
A change of 62 drag counts is needed to change the static margin 20 ft = 8.35% chord 
1 drag count = 0.135% change in static margin 
Data was calculated by changing the location of the center of gravity and 
looking at the changes in the drag output. Because the neutral point is 
assumed to remain constant, the change in the cg is also the change in the 
static margin. The data was then plotted as a function of the change in the 
drag, and it is shown that 62 counts of drag are necessary to move the static 
margin 8.35%. 
Each drag count can be attributed to a 0.135% change in the static margin 
7 
Transonic Airfoil 
 Used a modified Whitcomb SC airfoil 
 Closely matched Megaliner design 
 CLCrtiical =0.58 
 At Mach 0.6 
 Above this Mach Number TSfoil exploded |   
 
  
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