Designing for a Green Future: A Unified Aircraft Design Methodology

摘要

Aristotle once said “the whole ismore than the sumof its parts.” It is in Aristotle’s words that a basis for a greenernaviation industry can be found. By looking at the whole, the aerospace community can make the entire airntransportation systemsustainable for generations to come.The effect of aviation on the environment is amultifacetednproblem with far reaching consequences if addressed improperly. For this reason, the proposed methodologynprovides a strategic planning capability for environmental technologies. This unified methodology is a top-down-nbottom-up approach starting and ending with the air transportation system, and is intended to align technologynselection with an organization’s long term environmental concerns. The objective is to systematically identifyntechnologies worth investment based on their environmental impact throughout the future air transportationnsystem. This unified methodology for green design provides the fundamental framework to make purposefulntechnology selections and investment decisions to meet the environmental needs of the future.