Research on Aircraft Ditching State Selection Based on Floating Characteristics of Water Surface

Abstract

When an airplane is forced to ditching on water, slight state changes, such as weight, center of gravity, initial attitude, etc., will have great influence on the ditching performance and floating ability of the airplane. In order to study the floating ability of the aircraft under the above parameters, this paper takes a fixed-wing aircraft as the basis model, and based on hydrostatics, divides the water inflow into several tiny water inflow segments. By studying the floating attitude and floating time of different aircraft states, the influence law of the center of gravity position parameters on the floating time is mastered. The research shows that the floating time and water inflow volume of the aircraft will be significantly increased when the higher center of gravity position and the non-most unfavorable longitudinal range of the center of gravity are adopted, and forced landing on water in this state can provide emergency evacuation and escape for the aircraft personnel.