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What are buttock lines and water lines in ship design?

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Fundemental disadvantages of traditional rockets

  • aquitaine
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NASA NASA SDO Satellite Captures Solar Eruption VIDEO

  • MarkitScience
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What are dark streaks on the wings of the aircraft near the engine?

  • RandomGuy88
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Obama's Mars Proposal, and beyond? Lets brainstorm details.

  • Who Am I
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Reusable multi-purpose spacecraft for lunar and Mars missions

  • Who Am I
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What is exact difference btwn ISOTROPIC and HOMOGENEOUS materials

  • rmrramani
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What are the Pros and Cons of High Bypass Ratio Jet Engines?

  • vincentryan
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Revolutionizing Space Travel: Updates on Man into Space Design

  • funniew
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Vulnerability of Space Shuttle to Impact by Meteor

  • Thecla
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What should I include in a propeller efficiency report?

  • 3zz
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Is space exploration a waste of money?

  • RandomGuy88
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Can Propeller Efficiency be Calculated from Scratch?

  • Mohd Nazli
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What is secant modulus?

  • rmrramani
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Jet Engine Life Span: What to Know

  • wolram
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Alternative spacelaunch methods

  • ShotmanMaslo
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Learn About the Loads Acting on Aircraft

  • rmrramani
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Why hasn't anyone built a space elevator on the moon?

  • edpell
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Can I Get a BS in Aero and an MS in Mech?

  • Senerchia
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How do helicopters remain stable, despite the potential for tipping over?

  • jostpuur
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Boeing How Does the Boeing 787's Wing Shape Enhance Flight Dynamics?

  • verdigris
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Reducing 3x3 Inertia Tensor to Scalar Value

  • frasool
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No Poisson Ratio for Link Element in FEA

  • rmrramani
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What is kinematic indeterminancy?

  • rmrramani
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Electrical power generation and distribution in an aircraft

  • physixlover
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How much do these type of flaps increase drag?

  • lukus09
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Looking for Equation that can describe both scenarios

  • JMac14181
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What is the flow velocity of a rocket engine's thrust chamber?

  • treddie
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Aircraft Icing: Risks and Solutions

  • RandomGuy88
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Space elevator ? How can it work?

  • RonRyan85
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How much do spoilers increase drag coefficient?

  • lukus09
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What Are the Challenges in Developing Sixth Generation Fighter Jets?

  • MotoH
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Why Does Failure Stress Depend on Material?

  • rmrramani
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How does Reynods number affects on an aerofoil

  • physixlover
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Helicopter with Main Rotor Below the Cabin

  • skeptic2
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Where can I find a technical description?

  • Shereice
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Extraction Methods for Frozen Lunar Water Ice?

  • sanman
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Using genetic algorithms to design RC aircraft with flight simulation

  • philquiet
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Calculating Best Dimensions for an Airfoil

  • Beau Brown
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Boeing Where can I find a 3D drawing of the Boeing 747 landing gear?

  • Hodgie
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NASA Petition against cancellation of NASA's Constellation project

  • Aquafire
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How to solve for bending moment?

  • airstrike_ola
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How can I build an aerospike rocket engine with a three-component fuel mixture?

  • DaemonStudent
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Creating a Mesh with Beam Objects in Anysis

  • engr86
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Power Requirements for VASIMR to Lift Objects on Earth

  • aquitaine
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Formula for thrust force on helicopter

  • krishnapadhye
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Software for designing parts of a jet

  • gezim
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Blue Edge rotor blade (Eurocopter)

  • MotoH
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Designing Airfoils: Choard Sizing & Printing - Low Reynolds #50000

  • _mariyan_
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Using a Ionocraft (lifter) to get into space

  • johnfullerroot
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Calculating turbofan specific power from thrust and aircraft speed

  • balogun
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NASA NASA Scientists Plan to Approach Girl

  • BobG
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Vortex Panel Method Development Question

  • Graviman
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A day in the life of an Aerospace Engineer

  • Cyrus
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Back-spinning conveyors instead of wings?

  • WCOLtd
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Rapid Aid Delivery and Distribution System

  • cepheus
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Corelating Re number for model scale to actual scale

  • deepacha
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NASA NASA reluctance to use centrifugal acceleration

  • edpell
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NASA NASA - The Political/Semi-Science Organization

  • funniew
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Aerospace Engineering Programs in Canada?

  • Millacol88
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What extra classes should I take for my Aerospace Engineering major?

  • MotoH
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Naval aviator who shot himself down

  • FredGarvin
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How to Model a Ducted Fan in Gambit?

  • odane3113
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Amazing BO-105 Aerobatic Flight Display

  • FredGarvin
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Non-Academic Books Every Aerospace Engineer Should Read

  • Cyrus
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Secret Aerodynamics of B2 Stealth

  • sr241
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Modifying GT to Tesla: Is a Cri Cri Plane Possible?

  • Mustafa Umut
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Software for designing an aerofoil

  • physixlover
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Why Are Rockets Round? An Exploration

  • jeffonfire
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Are Airships Making a Comeback for Cargo Transport?

  • Jim M
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Helicopter rotor blade stress calculations

  • Aero_Marty
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Nonlinear State-Space Modeling for UAV Dynamics

  • Spitsplat
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Building a simplified R/C plane flight simulator

  • SwedishWings
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Sprocket and Spur Gear Chain Drive Question

  • bmwbykrydr
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Pros and cons of wing placement on an aeroplane

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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What is avionics and what does the field cover?

  • imnitsy
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Russia Launches First Flight of T-50 Stealth Fighter

  • FredGarvin
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Understanding liquid fueled rocket engines

  • jostpuur
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How calculate propeller efficiency if I know propeller trust?

  • vissarion.eu
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NASA BushObama unveils NASA expansion plan

  • mugaliens
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Looking for aeronautical and astronautical journals in print

  • M.M.M
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Ionizing turbojet exhaust with electric grid for extra thrust

  • talanum1
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Designing a fuel injection system for a liquid fuel rocket engine

  • FITrocketry
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Is University of Tennessee at Knoxville Good for Aerospace Engineering?

  • auntieria
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Shear and compression loads on a 30mm spacer between wishbone and ball joint

  • an1mal_69
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Aerospace Engineering: Finding the Right Minor

  • AE2013
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NASA Did NASA waste resources debunking 2012 doomsday claims?

  • mgb_phys
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Finding velocity of air at a point on a wing

  • lp2789
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Longitudinal static stability (LSS)

  • jason.bourne
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How do cargo parachutes stay separated during descent?

  • jostpuur
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Design and construction of a cheap 1-2 seater helicopter

  • Imop45
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Airfoil pressure distribution using joukowski transform

  • kronecker77
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Two vertical stabilizers on the F-22 Raptor angled

  • RandomGuy88
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Velocity from Static and Total pressures

  • ptptaylor
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Can Computational Flow Dynamics Predict the Performance of CO2 Rocket Cars?

  • BobCannon
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Can anybody tell me what the life of a aerospace engineer is like

  • Timothy22
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Failure of Sparcraft Wings on my Aerobatic Aircraft

  • pitts
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