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Aerospace Engineering
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Listed below are the best Engineering Sites made specifically for
Aerospace Engineering.
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Editor's Choice
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Popular Aerospace Sites
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Advanced
Personal Air Transportation System
- exploring the future role of aviation in personal transportaion
systems.
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Aero
Design Team Online
- a wealth of knowledge about aeronautics, the science of flight, at
your fingertips. Meet scientists and engineers doing aeronautics design
research at NASA.
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Aeronautic
Nation
- online information about history, the pilots that flew the planes,
mysteries and disasters of flight, and more.
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Aeronautics
Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research
- NASA-sponsored site offering a complete textbook on aeronautics at
various reading levels, from middle school through college.
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Aerotech
News and Review
- focuses on the aerospace and defense industries.
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Air
Letter On-line
- Daily newsletter covering the international aerospace, aviation, and
air defense industries.
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Aviation
Resource Center
- information on aircraft, aerodynamics, aerospace, and more.
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Aviation
World
- comprehensive directory of airlines, airports, plane manufacturers and
more.
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Beginner's
Guide to Aerodynamics
- designed to provide background information on basic aerodynamics for
secondary math and science teachers.
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Compressible
Aerodynamics Calculator
- intended to replace printed tables. Computes (forward and backward)
functions for isentropic flow, and normal and oblique shock waves.
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DC-9
Users Guide for Microgravity Experiments
- step by step user guide for anyone interested in submitting a
microgravity experiment for flight on the NASA Lewis ResearchCenter
DC-9.
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Decavitator
Human-Powered Hydrofoil
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Development
of a Taxi Assistance and Guidance System
- support the pilot on the ground by weather independent navigation,
datalink communication, and several assistance and warning functions.
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FanWing
- a new high lift, efficient wing which produces both lift and thrust.
Photos of models and test flights.
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Hangar,
The
- presents the latest in technology and classic moments in aviation
history.
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Historic
Wings
- featuring stories and photodocumentaries about the triumphs and trials
of flight, both past and present.
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How
Things Fly
- based on an exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum.
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How
Wings Really Work
- faults of Bernoulli-based wing theory are described, and more
appropriate theory is presented in terms of air mass acceleration and
reaction according to Newtonian principles.
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In-Flight
Zone, The
- offers several galleries of aircraft images and related aviation
links.
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Introduction
to Flight
- topics include air, parts of a plane, and how planes fly.
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Ionocraft
Page
- 1964 article about ion-propelled aircraft from Popular Mechanics.
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K-8
Aeronautics Internet Textbook
- includes lesson plans, interactive activities, and curriculum bridges
to other subjects.
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NOVA:
Supersonic Spies
- explore the future of air travel with diagrams, animation and text -
and find out what keeps today's Concorde aloft.
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Numerical
Aerospace Simulation Facility Software
- information about supercomputer systems software and support tools to
scientific visualization applications from this division of the NASA
Ames Research Center.
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NZ
Aviation
- offers a glossary of terms and copies of documents used in the
industry.
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Perceived
Human Factors Problems of Flightdeck Automation
- describes a study to identify possible human factors (ergonomics)
problems with commercial aircraft automation.
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PlaneMath
- lessons and activities to learn cool things about math and aeronautics
on the Internet.
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Practical
Astronautics
- a glossary.
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RADSIM
- Simulation of avionics radar displays including synthetic aperture
radar (SAR), real beam ground mapping, and doppler beam sharpening (dbs)
systems.
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See
How It Flies
- explains the very basics of how planes fly, plus great NASA K-12
aeronautics education links.
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Slingshot
Effect, The
- how spacecraft accelerate in planetary flybys by gravity assist.
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Smart
Damage Sensing in A/C Structures
- based on my PhD work on smart damage sensing in CFRP composite
structures.
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Spacecraft
Avionics
- a description of the functions performed and the architecture of the
avionics on a generic spacecraft, with a description of each of the 18
functions.
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Vertical
Navigation (VNAV)
- description of functions and events from takeoff to missed approach.
For the Boeing 777.
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