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Innovation For The Air: A Brief History Of Worldwide Aviation, Lauren Plumley
Innovation For The Air: A Brief History Of Worldwide Aviation, Lauren Plumley
Honors Theses
The purpose of this report is to present a brief but comprehensive overview of the variety of innovations related to aviation, and to discuss their impact on scientific progress over the course of human history. Relevant discoveries from the fields of physics and aerodynamics, and the numerous technologies built based upon these discoveries, are discussed over a period ranging from ancient times to the twenty-first century. The scope of this report is an overview of the development of powered and unpowered aircraft, including lighter-than-air, heavier-than-air, and aerospace technologies. Aviation developments were generally not limited to one specific country or person, …
Avia 201 Project 1 Windtunnel Lab Form Ver 1.20 20200323, Nihad E. Daidzic
Avia 201 Project 1 Windtunnel Lab Form Ver 1.20 20200323, Nihad E. Daidzic
Aviation Department Publications
To introduce aviation/aeronautics/aerospace students to wind tunnel(s) and methods used in experimental identification of various aerodynamic (and stability) coefficients of airfoils (2D), wings (3D) and scale models.
Wind Tunnel Measurements And Data Analysis Tutorial, Nihad E. Daidzic
Wind Tunnel Measurements And Data Analysis Tutorial, Nihad E. Daidzic
Aviation Department Publications
This tutorial gives details on processing of raw aerodynamic data measured directly in the wind tunnel on airfoils and wings. Also procedures and equations from the lab report are given and demonstrated how to compute geometric characteristics of wings/airfoils and air data. All numeric results are typically rounded to five significant digits.