Airplane design.

Pick up what many believe to be the bible of aircraft design,
"Analysis & Design of Flight Vehicle Structures" by Bruhn. Should be
available in big libraries or ebay. It has many worked examples in
each section.
Bob



On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:58:01 +0800, Stealth Pilot
wrote:



Jim you are only limited by your self doubt. I admit it is hard to
find decent aero engineering references that are understandable but
keep trying. we'll both get there one day.

Stealth Pilot

Morgans

Cool! What projects have you had a hand in? Some of the "big" ones?

Well, I just started there in September, so I've been working on a
number of small things, to get my feet wet and learn the ropes, so to
speak. I do have some responsibility for some of the systems on SS2,
and I've designed, built, and tested some "poor man's wind tunnel"
apparatus that's mounted on the front of a F-250 truck. If you happen
to get the Mojave News (I THINK that's the name of the paper), there'll
be a picture of the setup in there next week - a van pulled up to me
today after I was racing down the runway, and a guy took some pictures
(with permission, apparently) :-).

--
Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006

Marc J. Zeitlin wrote:

Morgans


Cool! What projects have you had a hand in? Some of the "big" ones?


Well, I just started there in September, so I've been working on a
number of small things, to get my feet wet and learn the ropes, so to
speak. I do have some responsibility for some of the systems on SS2,
and I've designed, built, and tested some "poor man's wind tunnel"
apparatus that's mounted on the front of a F-250 truck. If you happen
to get the Mojave News (I THINK that's the name of the paper), there'll
be a picture of the setup in there next week - a van pulled up to me
today after I was racing down the runway, and a guy took some pictures
(with permission, apparently) :-).


Probably a 21st Century version of the one on top of the station wagon?

Richard Lamb wrote:

Probably a 21st Century version of the one on top of the station
wagon?

If you call an F-250 and a bunch of 2" square steel tubing 21st century.
Let's go with 1980's :-).

--
Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006

Marc J. Zeitlin wrote:
Morgans wrote:


I know you have posted what you do there, but I have forgotten.
What is it, again, if you would?


I don't think that I have - maybe you're confusing me with someone else,
but I don't know who that might be - Scaled is not a big place :-).

I'm a mechanical/aeronautical engineer. I design stuff. Sometimes I
build it, too, and test it :-).


I know he won't remember me, but I got to work with Burt at Bede way back
when. I made a honeycomb-paper-core/Glass/Epoxy I-Beam sample for him, but
he already had foam on his mind. I didn't understand it then, but the trade
off between weight and work was obviously the right one.

Tell him "Hi", and "WoW!!!" for me, will ya?


Richard