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  1. Fluffy

    Bruhn - Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures

    Or you can go to the publisher for a little bit less... Jacobs Publishing
  2. Fluffy

    Ducted fan blade design

    You might find this useful for designing or analyzing a ducted propeller: Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of Propellers for Mini-Remotely Piloted Air Vehicles. Volume 2. Ducted Propellers It's for RPVs (remotely-piloted vehicles, now what we'd call a UAV) but it's probably a decent start as...
  3. Fluffy

    Helping in UAV project

    I'd suggest getting a book on RC aircraft design and using it for the initial sizing of your UAV. Typical aircraft design textbooks were written for designing "real" aircraft and the sizing rules they include don't scale down well for UAVs which fly many times slower than a real aircraft. As...
  4. Fluffy

    I'm sorry Dave

    Based on what I've read, you're not going to escape FBW or FADECs. I think pretty well every 525 and most larger 523 type aircraft that's being built now has some level of automation, let it be FADEC/EEC and/or FBW. (And it's not just Airbus that's computerized everything - there's FADEC...
  5. Fluffy

    Has anybody read this book?

    Chris has also put some notes on aircraft design on Zenith Air's website too: Chris Heintz Design College
  6. Fluffy

    Structural analysis loads on attachment points?

    MIT puts all their course notes online... 2.001 Mechanics & Materials I That's a basic course in engineering mechanics and should be enough for simple stress analysis. There's also a follow on course: 2.002 Mechanics and Materials II This is a bit more advanced and goes into fatigue and...
  7. Fluffy

    Modify Turbojet To Turbofan?

    I was going to suggest the bolt-on fan to the power turbine, but someone beat me to it. If I was going to try doing this, I'd get a Lycoming T53 (http://www.aircav.com/huey/T53-13.html) and put a ducted fan on the front of it. T53s, or so I've heard, are available second-hand reasonably...
  8. Fluffy

    What software do you use?

    Yeah, I should have verified that's for a student edition. Otherwise you're out about $3,000. Of course, you could just find a torrent... :ponder:
  9. Fluffy

    Question(s) about Steel Tube Fuselage Design

    The book I mentioned says it is the same for a race car chassis: you don't want to have bending, just tension and compression. Race cars just do this a bit differently, using a flat sheet of a stiff material (such as carbon fibre sandwich panels) bonded or fastened to the steel tubes instead of...
  10. Fluffy

    What software do you use?

    I've used both ProEngineer and Solidworks, and there's no competition. Maybe because I'd learned ProEngineer first, but Solidworks was excellent. The GUI was considerably more intuitive than ProE, Solidworks let me do what I wanted to do without giving me a billion caution and warning messages...
  11. Fluffy

    Question(s) about Steel Tube Fuselage Design

    Hey I've been browsing this forum for a while, and as I'm also trying to figure out how to design my own steel tube fuselage I noticed this topic. Not sure if this helps anyone, but the book The Race Car Chassis by Forbes Aird (published by HP Books) goes through the basics of steel tube...
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