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Calculating Velocities on Airfoil Surfaces with Vortex Sheet

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Boeing Boeing Manufacturing Engineering internship phone interview using STAR method

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NASA NASA CME Video Captures Object Hiding Behind Mercury

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How Does a Turbojet Engine Work for a Mechanical Engineering Student?

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Does the wind speed up after a wind turbine blade?

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Can Serenity Fly in Hover Mode?

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Rocketdyne H-1 Rocket Engine, plans/blueprints

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How Can I Calculate Net Lift and Thrust for a Flapping, Pitching MAV?

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Using an S beam load cell as a gravity sensor

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How can I learn dynamic meshing in Fluent?

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How is plasma generated during spacecraft reentry?

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Simulating Low Gravity: How to Create a Fake Moon Room

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Thrust to Power Ratios for Modern Propulsion Systems

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Math formulas for sub-orbital flight

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Boundary Layer Thickness of Blunt Body

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Is a high-speed vortex blimp possible?

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Which is profitable either long haul or short haul?

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Maximum turning angle for 3 regular oblique shock reflections at Mach 2

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Aircraft Propeller Balancing Discussion

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Boeing Polish Lot Boeing 767 lands without gear on Okęcie airport

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Shuttle Thermal Tiles: Description and Suggestions

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Small Wright Flyer - How to make it work?

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Aspiring to build working scale models

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The Principle of the Helicopter

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How Can You Build a Replica of Hero's Engine for Jet Propulsion Study?

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Boeing IranAir Boeing 727 lands with stuck nose gear

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How Do You Calculate Static Pressure on Hypersonic Vehicles?

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Calculating aircraft fuel consumption

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2D-panelmethod, extend to lifting bodies?

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Opinions on a Hypersonic Tunnel based Transportation System

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What Is the Maximum Propeller Diameter for a 1800 Shp Engine at 2000 RPM?

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NASA Do NASA's interplanetary missions require Einsteinian corrections?

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Should We Buy or Rent a Wind Tunnel for Polymer Coating Testing?

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Hybrid pulse-jet/rocket motor for space application

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Can a Boeing 767 maintain its speed while descending from high altitude?

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Creating a Drag Shield for a free fall object

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X Prize Clean Aviation electric coast-to-coast flight proposal

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What are the different methods for calculating satellite altitude?

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Eligibility for MS Aerospace Engineering.

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Building a Parachute with Military Nylon

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Leading Edge Slats on Hang Gliders?

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Ideas for a lecture in new technologies in aircraft structure

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Estimation of angle of attack / sideslip from flight test data

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Aerospace Projects: Ideas for Third-Year Aircraft Engineering Student

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Programs with MS in astro/aero via web

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Masters in aerospace engineering

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NASA What are the odds of getting hit by debris from the UARS satellite?

  • WolfOfTheSteps
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Turbulent shear layer what is it and its aeroacoustic properties

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How Far Can Spacecraft Travel in the Unknown Universe?

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Your favorite feats of engineering

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Swept wings, Mcr and Span-wise flow

  • PA32
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Speed at wing point with pressure of 9 psic at 10,000 ft

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Where to find gas turbine pressure, temperature and efficiency data

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How to derive the space state form of this system?

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Kalman filter estimates look small but errors are good in INS/GPS system

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Noise generated from turbulent shear flow

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Boundary conditions for buckling of column

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Calculating Air Pressure, Velocity at Venturi Tube Inlet/Throat/Outlet

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Stall Speed vs. Weight and Altitude

  • PA32
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NASA ET article not affiliated with NASA

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Relationship between static thrust and RPM

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Question for Aerodyamicist on Vertical Stabilizer Icing

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How Is Static Thrust Calculated for Quad Rotor UAVs?

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Aerospace Engineer or Mechanical Engineer?

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Rotor vs Propeller: Know the Difference

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Weapons Developer w/ Aerospace Engineering Degree

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Trying to decipher transient flow results

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How fast can we truly ever hope to make a spacecraft?

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Do pterosaur-inspired aircraft tails work like actual pterosaur crests?

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A different approach towards Thrust Engines

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Power calculations for Hovering

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Is China's new aircraft carrier design practical?

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Newtons third law regarding spacecraft engines

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How is the lift formula in aerodynamics derived?

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Understanding Drag and Coefficient of Drag (Cd) in Aero Engineering

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Aerospace and/or Mechanical Engineer Degree

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Unsteady flow code - Problem with space loop

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Where to start? Modeling a UAV Control System in Simulink

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NASA Weekend with NASA scientist Chris McKay

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Career path in aerospace engineering.

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Aileron-Air crafts/Rockets control theory

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Where can I buy small liquid rocket engines for glow fuel?

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Small Pressurized Container up to 100,000ft

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In Atmosphere Ion Drive(Assess Viability For Spacecraft)

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How does the launch altitude alter the range of a missile?

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Next big thing in the aviation iddustry

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Can Graphene Be Effectively Used in Solar Sails?

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Lunar Rover Equipped with HD Video Camera

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Space Shuttle MKII (Design Discussion)

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Paying money for rocket designing request.

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Do Aerospace Engineers Work with Physicists?

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