aircraft design

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Hello all. I looked around and did not see any existing threads addressing this matter so I decided to start one. What I have been wondering for some time is the lack of manned turrets of world war 2 German bombers. All the pre war and early war models seem to have had dorsal and ventral gun...

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...

We know how much influence the Vietnam War had on US (and other countries) aircraft developments. But what if the Vietnam War had never happened? How would aircraft programs been affected in that scenario? Let's assume in this scenario the Geneva Accords of 1954 end up in a single united...

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...