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The “Coming to Terms” column in the March/April 2023 issue of Vertiflite, “A Taxonomy of VTOL Aircraft Configuration Types — Part 3: Reinventing the Wheel,” was the last in a series of three successive installments that proposed a new taxonomy for characterizing vertical and/or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft.
Mobility is about the movement of people and things, and a decisive metric for any vehicle is its operating range for a single trip on its organic, stored energy.
As technology has enabled affordable digitization, the capability and application of aviation modeling and simulation has exploded. It has evolved from its origins in complex aerospace products to everyday consumer goods. The concepts of “digital twin” and “digital thread” have also been developing and are being deployed across product development and manufacturing to leverage this digital data, improving the products and the processes for increased efficiencies and reduced costs.
A taxonomy of terms is presented to differentiate electric aircraft types.
This series addresses the uses of terminology, expressions or idioms that could be misleading, confusing, unfavorable, erroneous or prejudicial. This installment addresses terminology regarding the burgeoning electrification of power and control systems in aircraft.
This column addresses vertical flight terminology and proffers descriptions, definitions, or language to clarify and bridge divides.
This series addresses vague or conflicting vertical flight terminology and proffers descriptions, definitions, or language to clarify and bridge divides.
Normally this column corrects erroneous use of terminology and proffers definitions to be used as canonical. As the second in an extended series intended to bring clarity, this installment deviates as it highlights common aviation certifications.
This series addresses uses of vertical flight aviation terminology that are unclear or incomplete, and so at risk of being confusing, misleading, unfavorable, erroneous or prejudicial. This installment addresses the misuse of terminology regarding FAA airworthiness certification.
This series addresses the uses of terminology that threaten to become routine expressions or idioms — or already are — but are misleading, unfavorable, erroneous or prejudicial. This installment addresses terminology for vertical takeoff and landing capability derived from a fixed-wing perspective.
