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Take a Trans-Atlantic Flight With Team 6, The Engineering 103 Way

Your Flight Is From JFK To LHRYou Will Be Sitting Next To:

Sha Maula (Team Leader), Chris Pyman, John Sullivan and Karl Laguerre

Itinerary For this Labview Project

we chose to model a trans-atlantic flight

The problem that we were trying to solve was how fast was a certain plane traveling and how much fuel was it using and how much did it have left

We Are Flying In A…? We chose to use the Boeing 747-

400 airliner as our example aircraft The Boeing 747-400 holds up to

216,847.3138 Liters of Fuel For this trip we will only use

65,336.20732 Liters of Fuel At this rate the plane burns

11.76072915 Liters of Fuel per Km To make the data easily visible we

will decrease the amount of total fuel on the 747 just like they do in reality

Airliners do not fill each plane up to full capacity for a range extending flight, which crossing the Atlantic Ocean is not in this case

The total amount of fuel aboard this plane for this particular flight will be 80,000 Liters

How It Works

At rest the plane’s speed is 0 km/hr because there is no distance traveled or time traveled and so the fuel is at full capacity

Our Speed Equation: S = Distance / Time Our Fuel Consumption Equation:

Fuel Level = (Full Tank – (Fuel Consumption Rate x Distance) / Full Tank)) x 100

Plane At Takeoff

When the plane begins to move that’s when we can calculate speed and fuel consumption

At takeoff the length of the runway is 4.442 km which is our distance

The amount of time it takes the plane to get down the runway is 0.0153172414 hours

Our speed is 290 km/hr at takeoff

The plane now has 79,947 Liters of Fuel left

Plane In Mid-Flight At cruising speed the plane

travels at a constant speed for the remainder of the flight

This speed is calculated from half of the total distance traveled which is 2777.5 km

The time is half the average time it takes to travel from JFK to LHR which is 3.04 hrs

The speed is now 910 km/hr At this moment the plane

has 47,334 Liters of Fuel left

Plane At Landing

The 747 begins to slow down during the descent and approach its final distance of 5,555 km

It has flown for approximately 6.08 hours

At the flight’s end, the 747 is left with 14,669 Liters of Fuel

Front Panel

Block Diagram

Sources

www.nasa.gov

www. boeing.com