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NASA's aircraft analysis, design, and optimization tool
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Fix aviary mass balance in Height Energy so that fuel consumed during simple takeoff is included. #273

Closed Kenneth-T-Moore closed 1 month ago

Kenneth-T-Moore commented 2 months ago

Summary

When using height-energy with "include_takeoff" set to True, the fuel consumed during takeoff and taxi was not included in the "fuel_burned" calculation, which instead computed from the start of the first flight phase, which is Climb (usually.) This caused the sizing to undercompute the gross weight by the amount of fuel is missed.

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