POSSIBILITY OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT IN-FLIGHT REFUELING

Abstract

With application of the developed calculation-software package there were conducted the researches, demonstrating the possibility of in-flight refueling of civil aircraft. As a flying tanker there were chosen tanker aircraft ILyushin-78 which is currently operated and a perspective tanker on the basis of ILyushin-96-400T aircraft. Perspective aircraft MC-21-400 was chosen as an aircraft to be refueled.

Keywords

• вихревой след
• воздушное судно
• заправка в воздухе
• аэродинамические характеристики