Email Archive
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Old aerospace books can be the best aerospace books
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Every new client problem is a business project
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Guide your team to understanding, without feeling besieged
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Defusing the tension of a design review
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It’s a design review, not a design interrogation
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The waterfall effect of a single config change
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Only the expert knows what to ignore
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Aero engineering should collaborate, not dictate
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In the matrix: how to plan your test
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How to pick the right wind tunnel facility
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Do we even need wind tunnels anymore?
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A high-ROI flow vis option
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Ways we make our airflow visible
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Why we can trust scale model data
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So why is it called a balance, anyways?
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Why you shouldn’t stress your balance choice
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Our main data collection instrument: the balance
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Using air pressure to our benefit
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The data wind tunnels give us
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What is a wind tunnel, anyways?
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I think wind tunnels are great, and you should too
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Only knowing pitch angle doesn’t HAVE to be scary
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How pitch angle alone can be dangerous
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Similar but not the same: pitch angle vs angle of attack
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You solve one problem, then you solve the next one.
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Why reference quantities kind of don’t matter
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How we talk about our airplane geometry
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Why aerodynamics is built on coefficients
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How we make coefficients, and what they mean
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What do you do when you only tested one condition?
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