method for fabricating a dome canopy to increase lift and decrease drag along an aircraft's wing and fuselage, dome canopy for an aircraft and dome canopy for placement in a crown portion of a fuselage of an aircraft aircraft

摘要

a dome hood (250) to reduce drag and increase the life of an aircraft fuselage (210) and wings (220). the hood includes a housing that extends along a longitudinal axis and a variable width that extends normal to the longitudinal axis. the width of the housing is variable and defined by a plurality of cross-sectional areas of the dome canopy. the canopy has a substantially smooth outer surface that is curved along the variable length and width of the housing. the surface of the housing has its longitudinal and transverse curvatures defined by metrics corresponding to a reference wing root string of the aircraft (200), a cross-sectional area of the fuselage, a percentage of the cross-sectional area to be covered by the hood and positioning of the dome hood on the crown part of the fuselage (210). the housing has a lower surface configured to adapt to a shape of the crown on which the dome hood (250) is positioned.