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Aircraft Design Software and tools
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Aircraft Design - free online resources for wannabe aircraft designers
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Aircraft Design Textbooks
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When do too many minor changes require a completely new design?
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Design challenge: next generation heavy-lift cargo plane?
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US Navy Multi-engine Multi-Crewed Carrier Capable Training Aircraft - T-44 Replacement
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Design exercise: next generation carrier onboard delivery airplane for US Navy
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Design exercise: most bizarre conversion of a World War 2 surplus airplane?
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CFD/FEM Analysis of existing and extinc animals
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A-4 Skyhawk bring back the concept for the 21st century
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Design Exercise: 1919 Type I Water Cooled Pursuit Aircraft
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Camouflage discussion
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Design Challenge: Lightweight General Aviation Ejection Seat
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Optimal number of engines
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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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What if we start a group design for a new fire-fighting airplane?
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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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Design Challenge: Lightweight Multirole Fighter (LMF)
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$300 EVTOL Design Competition (Ends 2022/5/15)
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PHRACTYL_Macrobat
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how small can LO/stealthy combat aircraft designs get?
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Frontal area vs. drag vs. wetted area vs
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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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Analytic Considerations for Lifting Ascent Launch Vehicle Trajectories
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Alternate Design to the Douglas DC-1
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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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North American Sabreliner & the F86 Sabre
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Lets see if this new section finds use!
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F-22 Flight Controls Presentation
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Supersonic Propeller Aircraft Design Questions
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Barnaby Wainfan - 7 Sins of Aircraft Design
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Sizing and mass of aircraft surface controls
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Smallest possible interceptor for small nation with stealth feature.
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