MIL-STD-1791C Design for Indoor Air Delivery in Fixed Wing Aircraft

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MIL-STD-1791C Design for Indoor Air Delivery in Fixed Wing Aircraft

Military standards prepared by the US Department of Defense in order to achieve standardization targets are generally coded as MIL-STD or MIL-SPEC. The MIL-STD-1791C standard, designed within this framework, regulates the design principles for indoor air delivery in fixed wing aircraft.

MIL-STD-1791C Design for Indoor Air Delivery in Fixed Wing Aircraft

The standard includes the design and performance requirements to ensure that the United States Air Force (USAF) fixed-wing aircraft are in flight fit during safe and efficient cargo transport missions. It presents design requirements and operating limits from basic aircraft loading guides and technical publications, and supplemented with additional useful air transport data.

The process of approval or certification of cargo for air transport in fixed wing aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) is included in the standard. The section provides examples of the manner in which a certification request is submitted and the type of data to be sent.

The MIL-STD-1791C standard describes the general design and performance requirements that must be followed for safe transportation on USAF fixed wing cargo aircraft.

Aircrafts covered by this standard are as follows:

  • Main duty cargo aircraft (e.g. C-130E / H / J, C-130J-30, C-17 and C-5)
  • Cargo transport systems of the tanker fleet (KC-10 and KC-135)
  • Cargo aircraft in the long-range, international segment of the civil backup air fleet (e.g. B747, DC-10 and B767).

Structural and dimensional criteria for other cargo aircraft are documented in specific manuals for each aircraft.

In short, the MIL-STD-1791 standard covers everything that needs to be properly designed or modified for the safe and successful transport of a cargo on a USAF cargo plane. Air transport certification is militarily unique because there are no similarly structured commercial aircraft and formal or commercial groups with sufficient expertise.

The principles of designing the airborne cargo in the MIL-STD-1791 standard and interface with standard airdrop systems are included in the criteria for non-standard airdrop equipment and loads. Any cargo configured for airdrop is considered approved air transport without requiring a separate air transport certificate.

This standard describes the design and performance requirements to ensure that fixed wing military aircraft are airworthy during safe and effective cargo transport missions. This standard covers the general design and performance requirements of ready-made cargoes developed or purchased by the US government for use in internal air transport and civil air fleet long-range, international flights in military primary duty cargo aircraft. This standard also describes the procedure for the certification of very large or unusual cargoes for air transport.

The requirements and tests in this standard apply to the internal air portability aspects of all items intended for air delivery on civil or military aircraft. It represents the minimum acceptable portability characteristics. When it is known that equipment requires more restrictive features than those specified here, these features should be specified in separate equipment specification.

The MIL-STD-1791 standard provides general design and performance requirements for government or commercial cargo to be safely transported in the cargo compartments of Air Force fixed wing aircraft. The concept of cargo includes materials such as ammunition, machinery, food and fuel.

This public standard provides four main benefits: improved flight safety, savings in tenure, ongoing acquisition and improved national operations and humanitarian airline.

Our organization provides design services for indoor air delivery of fixed-wing aircraft within the scope of MIL-STD-1791C standard to the demanding enterprises, within the framework of national and international standards, with a trained and expert staff and advanced technological equipment, among numerous testing, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies. .

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