SAWE Paper No. 3474: U.S. Fighter Aircraft Design, Weight, and Performance Trends

摘要

Weight engineers struggle with aircraft weight because it is so critically importantto aircraft performance. Nowhere is this truer than for fighter aircraft. The U.S. has been operating fighters since 1917 and designing them since almost that long ago. This paper presents three sets of information for U.S. fighters: the first set consists of quantitative trends versus time for some top-level design, weight and performance parameters for U.S. fighters.