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    Mistral back in business

    http://www.mistral-engines.com/
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    Airframe affect on powerplant vibration characteristics?

    For this exercise lets assume that to design an aircraft powerplant properly the engine/psru/prop needs to be analysed/tested/optimised as a whole system rather than as seperate components. The problem is that the powerplant doesn't fly around on its own, it needs to be bolted onto something. I...
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    Thaheld IO-290 Diesel

    Before anyone gets too excited this isn't a new engine, just a historical curio that may be of interest to some folk here. I came across it in a book on the Stinson Voyager by John Swick. The engine was designed by Fred Thaheld. The prototype engine was flown in a Stinson 10A around 1946 and...
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    BMW inline 6 cyl?

    Is anyone aware of an attempt to use a BMW straight six (M54 for example) in an aircraft conversion? No, the BMW IIIa doesn't count.
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    Is this the coolest biplane ever?

    Hell Yes!! Turbine Toucan: Home
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    Historic Aircraft Designers, Engineers and Notables

    An interesting blog of short biographies of aircraft designers from the last 100 years or so. Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables
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    Bruhn - Airplane Structures vs Flight Vehicle Structures

    I have a 1949 edition of Analysis and Design of Airplane Structures, but I recently realised Bruhn has also published a later work called Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures. Are they the just same book with different titles or is there more useful info to be had in the later book?
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    Aeronautical Engineering degree for amateurs

    I've been researching engineering degrees and aircraft design as a career with the long term goal of designing and building my own aircraft. Here is a short summary of some thoughts that others have mentioned regarding degrees and design engineering, followed by a question which may help those...
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