Investigation of Airport Environment Visualization System for General Airplane Design

For general airplane design, the research fund is limited and the research period is short. Applying the efficient and intuitive visualization techniques is beneficial to solve this problem. This paper visually simulated the environment around the choice of the aircraft´s flight parameters, airplane taking off and landing and the cockpit view. This research established an airport environment visualization system, which completes relevant functions around computation of the aircraft´s flight, the simulation of the airplane taking off and landing etc. The visualization simulation can assist and assess visually in some airplane design processes and feedback to the designer for more information. The system can help designer to consider the influence of airport environment in airplane concept design stage, so the design efficiency is promoted.