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Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane
This paper has the aim to report the status of the HYPLANE project to date. HYPLANE is a horizontal take-off and landing Mach 4.5 bizjet-size aerospaceplane conceived by Trans-Tech and University Federico II of Naples and under study within the industrial-academic ecosystem of the Campania Aerospace...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12567-023-00494-z |
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description | This paper has the aim to report the status of the HYPLANE project to date. HYPLANE is a horizontal take-off and landing Mach 4.5 bizjet-size aerospaceplane conceived by Trans-Tech and University Federico II of Naples and under study within the industrial-academic ecosystem of the Campania Aerospace District (DAC). HYPLANE has the aim to offer very fast suborbital flight for space tourism, microgravity experimentation and training, and also shortening time to connect two distant airports within a door-to-door scenario. The concept is based on the access to stratospheric altitudes (30 km) for either point-to-point stratospheric or suborbital flights as safe as today's commercial air transportation, by integrating enhanced state-of-the-art aeronautical and space technologies. Essentially, HYPLANE is mostly based on already relatively high TRL technologies which guarantees a sufficiently short time to market. The low wing loading configuration and designed ability to manoeuvre along the flight trajectories at small angles of attack, allow HYPLANE to guarantee accelerations and load factors of the same order as those characterizing the present civil aviation aircraft (FAA/EASA specifications). Thanks to its technical features, it may operate from/to more than 5000 airports all over the world needing short runways to take-off and land, which for point-to-point business aviation is paramount. Furthermore, characteristics such as small dimension, configuration and high cruising altitude determine reduced noise in the airports surrounding and low sonic boom impact on ground. These conditions will further facilitate not only the development of the commercial use of such kind of transportation mean, but also its social acceptability. |
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spelling | pubmed-101053612023-04-17 Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane Russo, Gennaro Voto, Claudio CEAS Space J Original Paper This paper has the aim to report the status of the HYPLANE project to date. HYPLANE is a horizontal take-off and landing Mach 4.5 bizjet-size aerospaceplane conceived by Trans-Tech and University Federico II of Naples and under study within the industrial-academic ecosystem of the Campania Aerospace District (DAC). HYPLANE has the aim to offer very fast suborbital flight for space tourism, microgravity experimentation and training, and also shortening time to connect two distant airports within a door-to-door scenario. The concept is based on the access to stratospheric altitudes (30 km) for either point-to-point stratospheric or suborbital flights as safe as today's commercial air transportation, by integrating enhanced state-of-the-art aeronautical and space technologies. Essentially, HYPLANE is mostly based on already relatively high TRL technologies which guarantees a sufficiently short time to market. The low wing loading configuration and designed ability to manoeuvre along the flight trajectories at small angles of attack, allow HYPLANE to guarantee accelerations and load factors of the same order as those characterizing the present civil aviation aircraft (FAA/EASA specifications). Thanks to its technical features, it may operate from/to more than 5000 airports all over the world needing short runways to take-off and land, which for point-to-point business aviation is paramount. Furthermore, characteristics such as small dimension, configuration and high cruising altitude determine reduced noise in the airports surrounding and low sonic boom impact on ground. These conditions will further facilitate not only the development of the commercial use of such kind of transportation mean, but also its social acceptability. Springer Vienna 2023-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10105361/ /pubmed/37361357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12567-023-00494-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Council of European Aerospace Societies 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Russo, Gennaro Voto, Claudio Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title | Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title_full | Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title_fullStr | Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title_full_unstemmed | Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title_short | Hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
title_sort | hyplane: a single-stage suborbital aerospaceplane |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10105361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37361357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12567-023-00494-z |
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