Applied Aero Links
Applied Aerodynamics Group Webpages - Top Links
- UIUC Airfoil Data Site - Airfoil coordinates and links
- UIUC Low-Speed Airfoil Tests - Low Reynolds number aerodynamics
- UIUC Propeller Database - Low Reynolds number propeller performance
- The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage - Airfoils used on aircraft database
- Selig Publications
- PROFOIL-WWW for airfoil design on the web
- UIUC Aerospace Engineering Dept
Wind Energy
- Wind Vision: energy.gov
- NREL National Wind Technology Center
- Sandia Wind Energy Technology
- DTU Wind and Energy Systems
- American Clean Power Association
- SUMR - Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor project
Flight Simulation and Aircraft
- FlightGear
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- FS One RC Flight Simulator
- X-Plane
- Bihrle Applied Research, Inc.
- Aircraft 3-view drawings
- Many more 3-view drawings
- Project Ornithopter
- FAS UAVs Data/Pubs Inventory
- Princeton University: Aircraft Flight Dynamics (MAE 331) - includes many good links
- Wiki - Aviation Accidents and Incidents
University Team Aircraft Design Competitions
- AIAA Student Design/Build/Fly (DBF) Competition
- SAE Aero Design Competition
- AUVS Aerial Robotics Competition
Software, Online Tools, Calculators, Data and Resources
- XFOIL for airfoil design and analysis
- NASA Glenn: Beginners Guide to Aerodynamics
- NASA Glenn: FoilSim interactive airfoil simulator
- Aerodynamics for Model Aircraft / Martin Hepperle
- Public Domain Aeronautical Software (mainly NASA software)
Aerodynamics Course Materials
- NASA Glenn: Beginners Guide to Aerodynamics
- See How It Flies - John Denker
Websites, Groups, Organizations
- American Insitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- NASA Homepage
- NASA Aeronautics (news)
- National Air and Space Museum
- NREL National Wind Technology Center
- eFluids.com
- Aerospaceweb.org
- UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group
- Michigan Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Laboratory
- Academy of Model Aircraft (AMA)
- FliteTest Community Association (FTCA)
Aerospace Companies
- Cessna
- AeroVironment
- Airbus
- Aurora Flight Sciences
- Boeing
- General Atomics
- Groen Brothers Aviation
- Gulfstream (General Dynamics)
- Insitu
- Lockheed Martin
- Northrop Grumman
- Raytheon
- Scaled Composites
News Magazines
- Aviation Week and Space Technology
- AIAA Aerospace America
- Air and Space
- Janes Information Group
- Aero-News.net
Publications, Reports, Historical
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Memoirs of NACA Pilot Bob Champine
- NACA Pilot Bob Champine
- UIUC Grainger Engineering Library
- Hoerner's Fluid Dynamic Lift and Drag
- NASA History
- NASA History E-Books
- NASA History SP publications
- "Wind tunnels of NASA," NASA SP-440
- "Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight," NASA SP-367 (Talay)
- "Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft," NASA SP-468
- SoarTech Aero Publications from Herk Stokely: SoarTech #3 | SoarTech #6 | SoarTech #7 | SoarTech #9 | SoarTech #10
- Zephyr - early RC Soaring Bi-Monthly publications (provided by Herk Stokely): March-April, 1970 | May-June, 1970 | July-August, 1970
Misc Interesting Applied Aerodynamics Problems/Projects
Links to Links, References
- Princeton University: Aircraft Flight Dynamics
- Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
- Cranfield Lib Aerodynamics and CFD Links
- CFD Online Links
- Aircraft Design Sites - maintained by Dan Raymer
- Bird and Insect Flight References
- NASA Legacy CD (full text images for 179 NACA/NASA reports - 10,000 pages of documentation)
- NASA Legacy CD - Publications List
Conversion Factors
- Units Conversion: (Ref http://po.path.med.umich.edu/conversiontxt.htm).