A Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Lofter Aircraft Concept: Brimstone Angel
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A Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Lofter Aircraft Concept: SAIL-01 Donald C. Bingaman and Christian V. Rice VPE Aerospace Consulting LLC, St. Louis, MO 63021, USA Wake Smith Lecturer in Yale College, New Haven CT 06520 USA & Senior Fellow, M-CRBG, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Patrick G. Vogel Creve Coeur Research and Engineering Inc., St. Louis, MO 63146, USA A conceptual aircraft design is presented to facilitate Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) for the purpose of altering the Earth’s thermodynamic energy balance to offset a portion of anthropogenic global warming. Aircraft design characteristics are described to illustrate the challenges associated with the lofting and distribution of up to 15 tons of sulfate or calcite aerosol particulates per sortie at 20 Km (~65,000 ft.). Aircraft aerodynamic, propulsion, structural and subsystem concepts and analyses are presented to validate the aircraft conceptual design. A program plan, schedule and development cost estimate are provided for scoping the resources required to field a SAIL aircraft.
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- Authors
- Bingaman, D. C., Rice, C. V., Smith, W., & Vogel, P.
- Affiliations
- Vacuum Process Engineering (United States) (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Creve Coeur Research and Engineering, Corporation
- Venue
- AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
- Published
- 2020-01-05
- OpenAlex
- W2998608497
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 9.31
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- AIAA SciTech Forum (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems
- Keywords
- stratospheric aerosol injection, conceptual aircraft design, sulfate aerosols, geoengineering, climate change mitigation, aircraft aerodynamics, aircraft propulsion, aircraft structural design, aircraft subsystems
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