Aircraft Design Projects for engineering students(download)
Aircraft Design Projects for engineering students Introduction It is tempting to title this book ‘Flights of Fancy’ as this captures the excitement and expectations at the start of a new design project. The main objective of this book is to try to convey this feeling to those who are starting to undertake aircraft conceptual design work for the first time. This often takes place in an educational or industrial training establishment. Too often, in academic studies, the curiosity and fascination of project work is lost under a morass of mathematics, computer programming, analytical methods, project management, time schedules and deadlines. This is a shame as there are very few occasions in your professional life that you will have the chance to let your imagination and creativity flow as freely as in these exercises. As students or young engineers, it is advisable to make the most of such opportunities. When university faculty or counsellors interview prospective students...