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    Lofting is the process of defining an aircraft's external geometry. Production lofting provides an exact, mathematical definition of the entire aircraft down to small details. This allows different parts to be designed separately but fit together perfectly during assembly. For initial layouts, the major components like the fuselage, wings, and tails must be defined enough to show internal components will fit within a smooth aerodynamic contour. Early lofting techniques used flexible rulers connected by splines, but this required trial and error and did not provide a unique mathematical surface definition.

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    Lofting is the process of defining an aircraft's external geometry. Production lofting provides an exact, mathematical definition of the entire aircraft down to small details. This allows different parts to be designed separately but fit together perfectly during assembly. For initial layouts, the major components like the fuselage, wings, and tails must be defined enough to show internal components will fit within a smooth aerodynamic contour. Early lofting techniques used flexible rulers connected by splines, but this required trial and error and did not provide a unique mathematical surface definition.

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    Lofting is the process of defining an aircraft's external geometry. Production lofting provides an exact, mathematical definition of the entire aircraft down to small details. This allows different parts to be designed separately but fit together perfectly during assembly. For initial layouts, the major components like the fuselage, wings, and tails must be defined enough to show internal components will fit within a smooth aerodynamic contour. Early lofting techniques used flexible rulers connected by splines, but this required trial and error and did not provide a unique mathematical surface definition.

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    Lofting is the process of defining an aircraft's external geometry. Production lofting provides an exact, mathematical definition of the entire aircraft down to small details. This allows different parts to be designed separately but fit together perfectly during assembly. For initial layouts, the major components like the fuselage, wings, and tails must be defined enough to show internal components will fit within a smooth aerodynamic contour. Early lofting techniques used flexible rulers connected by splines, but this required trial and error and did not provide a unique mathematical surface definition.

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    Aircraft Design:

    Lofting

    Q. Explain Lofting

     "Lofting" is the process of defining the external geometry of the aircraft. "Production
    lofting," the most detailed form of lofting, provides an exact, mathematical definition
    of the entire aircraft including such minor details as the intake and exhaust ducts for
    the air conditioning.
     A production-loft definition is expected to be accurate to within a few hundredths of
    an inch (or less) over the entire aircraft. This allows the different parts of the aircraft
    to be designed and fabricated at different plant sites yet fit together perfectly during
    final assembly.
     For an initial layout it is not necessary to go into as much detail. However, the overall
    lofting of the fuselage, wing, tails, and nacelles must be defined sufficiently to show
    that these major components will properly enclose the required internal components
    and fuel tanks while providing a smooth aerodynamic contour.
     To provide a smooth longitudinal contour, points taken from the desired cross-
    sections were connected longitudinally on the drawing by flexible "splines," long, thin
    wood or plastic rulers held down at certain points by lead "ducks" .
     This technique was used for early aircraft lofting, but suffers from two disadvantages.
     First, it requires a lot of trial and error to achieve a smooth surface both in cross
    section and longitudinally.
     Second, and perhaps more important, this method does not provide a unique
    mathematical definition of the surface. To create a new cross section requires
    tremendous amount of drafting effort, In addition to the time involved this method is
    prone to mismatch errors.

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