It will fly! A new approach to web-based edutainment for aircraft design

This paper summarizes the development of a simple but scientific educational aircraft design system. We analyze the key elements during the conceptual design stage of a civil aircraft, proposing a universal educational process for both amateur designers and ordinary people who are interested in aircraft design. With unity3d game engine, a practical application is developed. This application integrates cabin arrangement, wing design, tail design and engine selection to meet customized aircraft mission requirements with a correct and distinct final technical summary displayed to assess the whole design work. This application has already finished the test to verify its feasibility of multiplatform publishing and future modification to SNS public sharing is also predicted.