Aerospace
Engineering Consulting
Gundlach Aerospace LLC
Aircraft Design
Conceptual Design – Performing complete aircraft conceptual design services that cover traditional aircraft design disciplines including configuration design, aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, mass properties, subsystem analysis, and flight performance. Other critically important disciplines include life cycle cost, launch and recovery systems, footprint, transportability, payload performance, and operations analysis.
Our object oriented aircraft design software can be rapidly tailored to unique design challenges. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) and design space exploration tools are utilized to rapidly find optimal, well-balanced design solutions. The final design is graphically represented in CAD models. The conceptual design output includes comprehensive design study reports, customer briefings, and engineering data that supports later design phases.
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
Product Development
UAS Design and Product Definition – Supporting the development of winning end-to-end UAS product designs. Our UAS product development capabilities include:
- Requirements development
- Comparative analysis with other systems
- Product definition that leverages key client technologies and intellectual property
- Complete aircraft conceptual design
- Responsive iterative design based on customer feedback
- Engineering trade studies for subsystems and the complete UAS
- Survey and selection of major systems, including payloads, propulsion, communication systems, avionics, launch and recovery systems, and ground control stations
- Supplier strategy, including make-buy decision support
- Development program planning