aircraft design

I've been doing some work on an original aircraft design. As part of the feasibility process, I decided to try calculating the wave drag of a Sears-Haack body with a length of 49.2 feet (15 meters) and a fineness ratio of 14 (a recommendation given by Dr. Raymer's aircraft design book). This...

Was it Edgar Schmued or Welko Gasich/Lee Begin that designed the F-5 or not?

Hello everyone, I have recently been looking into novel airplane configurations such as the blended wing body, transonic truss-braced wing, and box wing proposed by many aerospace companies like Boeing and NASA. I really love these designs and believe they can be of great benefit to society...

I have constantly encountered this statement, and it always felt iffy to me. Is this actually true? Can anyone actually point to what advancements have reduced the need for swing-wings? I feel like, when we look at famous swing-wing aircraft (F-14, Su-25 Tu-160) we see the same patterns: T/W way...

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...

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...

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...