Designing an aircraft - where do you start?
When an aircraft manufacturer decides it wants to design and build an aircraft to suit a particular market, what would be the starting point for the engineering/design team? For the sake of example, the proposed aircraft would have to carry 300 passengers for 5000 miles.
Is it a question of designing the fuselage size to accommodate 300 passengers and then adding wings/engines or would the entire engineering team sit down and try and hammer out the outline design on day 1? If the latter, is there are particular area that is key?
Apologies for what is an incredibly simplistic question on a very complicated subject.
Many thanks
GE30