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Aircraft Design - free online resources for wannabe aircraft designers
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Aircraft Design Textbooks
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Aircraft Design Software and tools
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Design proposal for a Tornado successor
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Aerodynamics Question for the Wing Experts: Ugrinsky or Revolving-Wing?
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US Navy Multi-engine Multi-Crewed Carrier Capable Training Aircraft - T-44 Replacement
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Lambda Wing
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Late 1950s UK Tactical Fighter
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Canard vs Tail Civillian
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Great minds think alike
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Design Challenge: around the world from east to west or pole to pole
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Aircraft geometry & Mach cone - math and myths
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Design Challenge: Lightweight Multirole Fighter (LMF)
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Design exercise: next generation carrier onboard delivery airplane for US Navy
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Area Rule - graphic method
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Armed UAV search and wipe out the portable anti-tank missile shooter
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Structural strength of fighters up to and including WW2 in various countries
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Why the intermeshing rotor helicopters are so few?
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Are canards bad for stealth? - An Endless Discussion
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"Advances in aerodynamics have made the swing-wing obsolete"
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Podded engines/intakes and wingroot intakes. can they still be relevant today?
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Who can design a cockpit that is highly efficient for use in high-intensity air combat?
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How small can low observable (stealth) combat aircraft designs get?
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Variance of handling test reports
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WW-1 parasol/high wing aircraft
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Bomb load P-38 vs. DH Hornet/Sea Hornet.
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Lancet drone and the unmanned flying vehicle
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Design a Close Air Support aircraft
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Rotorcraft Technology Development
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Wing of the Morane-Saulnier M.S.410
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Analytic Considerations for Lifting Ascent Launch Vehicle Trajectories
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How have advancements in aircraft simulators changed the requirements for training aircraft?
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Are GEVs a good idea?
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Chord Load distribution
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VTOL vs STOVL vs STOL for fighter aircraft
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How important are bubble canopies and mirrors nowadays and in future designs?
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Optimal number of engines
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CAD Design P51 Mustang Replica
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English Electric Lightning main undercarriage details
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Active flow control vs conventional control surfaces
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Designing the replacement for the A-10
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The Shape of German WWII Aircraft Fuselages
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Kelly Johnson's Skunk Work Rules
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Barnaby Wainfan - 7 Sins of Aircraft Design
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how to design aircraft even as "concept"
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how desing technicals for plane
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Powerpoint engineering and the downfall of quality
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Center of gravity on modern fighter jets
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Aircraft Requirements and CONOPs
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Why no three engined heavy fighters in WW2?
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Helicopter Design Textbooks and Guides
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My XV1 Vortex
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel
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Low observables versus maintainability tradeoff
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F-16 STORES LIMITATIONS in T.O. GR1F-16CJ-1-2 manual
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Design exercise: most bizarre conversion of a World War 2 surplus airplane?
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Benefits of no takeoff and landing to design
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Alternate Design to the Douglas DC-1
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HAL X-241 glider structural drawings
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Question about various canopy opening positions
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Rose tinted glasses time.
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Looking for a T-2 Air Technical Intelligence Review report
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Flying boats sponsons vs. stabilizing tip floats
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North American Sabreliner & the F86 Sabre
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Winglets@Airbus (lecture by Dr.-Ing. Gerd Heller, Senior Aerodynamics Expert, Airbus Operations)
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F-14 with canted vertical stabilizers
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Camouflage discussion
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Design Challenge: Lightweight General Aviation Ejection Seat
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What is the earliest an airborne PESA radar is possible?
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Nose Radome Design
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Seaplane Design - A Forgotten Art (lecture by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Wilczek)
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Looking for an ARC R&M seaplane report, but it's not on AERADE. Suggestions?
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Could it fly ? : Norman Bel Geddes Airliner Nr 4
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Lessons learned from failed prototypes?
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Flying Laser Mirror Relay Design
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Design Challenge: Air Superiority Fighter
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When do too many minor changes require a completely new design?
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A question about fighter RAM coating
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What if we start a group design for a new fire-fighting airplane?
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Design Exercise: 1919 Type I Water Cooled Pursuit Aircraft
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intresting aircraft concept (blended wing body + boxwing)
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Helicopter tails, thick vs slim ones
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Aerospace Trainer Concept Design
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Design challenge: next generation heavy-lift cargo plane?
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CFD/FEM Analysis of existing and extinc animals
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CTOL electric aircraft vs conventional
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A question about the shape of stealth fighter
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Impact of vertical tail on stealth
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Naca air intake ducts in reverse flow (as outlets)
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$300 EVTOL Design Competition (Ends 2022/5/15)
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PHRACTYL_Macrobat
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How Google's Wing Drone Delivery Aircraft Works (video)
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A question: Are Copper Coast and the X-24C in any way connected?
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German aircraft airworthiness requirements 1930s-1945
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Pros and cons of various AWACS configuration
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How does one know of costs of any and everything?
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Design challenge for an LSA that can fold into an ISO 20 shipping container
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What if we start a group design for a next-generation trainer airplane?
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Why fighters primary attributes changed the way they did?
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trailing boom-mounted control surfaces
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Kinematic defeat of missiles: the design optimization problem
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Lets see if this new section finds use!
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