Aircraft Weight and Center of Gravity Estimation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
An aircraft must ascend to heights by defying gravity and sustain the tiring task of cruise – naturally, it is weight-sensitive. Anyone who has climbed a hill knows about this experience, especially if one has to carry baggage. An inanimate aircraft is no exception; its performance suffers by carrying unnecessary mass (i.e., weight). At the conceptual design stage, aircraft designers have a daunting task of creating a structure not only at a low weight but also at a low cost, without sacrificing safety. Engineers also must be accurate in weight estimation, well ahead of manufacture. This chapter presents a formal method to predict an aircraft and its component mass (i.e., weight), which results in locating the CG during the conceptual design phase. The aircraft inertia estimation is not within the scope of this book.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it