aircraft design

  1. K

    Chord Load distribution

    Hello, I am working on a project to design a composite experimental plane. One of the challenges I face is to determine the chord load distribution of the wing. I have used the shrenk approximation method and openvsp results to obtain the wing lift distribution . I have also interpolated the cp...
  2. U

    How Google's Wing Drone Delivery Aircraft Works (video)

    I could've posted this video in a multitude of places but since it turned out to be (among other things) a very compact overall description of a multi-year design study, thought it best to highlight it here. Goes over vehicle design iterations as well as software, market, customer convenience...
  3. Jemiba

    Geodesic Structures in 1920s aircraft construction

    In an issue of Icare, I think from 1979, I found this photo of an unfinished fuselage, shown at an exhibition. I would call this a geodesic structure, invented, or at least first used in aircraft design, by Barnes Wallis in 1932. But the photo shows a Latécoère aircraft ! I still couldn't...
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