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Is the world really better off without hydrogen airships?
- Evanish
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Minimum length of the Pitot tube?
- Borek
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What is the combustion efficiency of liquid fuel rockets?
- Cato
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How a helicopter can stand still in the air?
- Abu Bakar Zahid
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Can Vacuum-Filled Blimps Revolutionize Air Travel?
- GTOM
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Why Do Airplane Wings Have a Natural Forward Pitching Moment?
- fog37
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Astronaut shoots a bullet into the sun - gravity assists?
- rcgldr
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Could a spacecraft refuel from the atmosphere?
- Al_
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What is the best Cubesat or Tubesat project available now?
- Prof Sabi
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Airplane lift, take off and loading capacity
- fog37
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How accurate is my wind tunnel for testing RC plane wings?
- trailogy
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Model wind turbine blade design for a 36-inch diameter rotor
- Avvai Chandrasekaran
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How does one make a resistojet rocket?
- yrjosmiel
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SpaceX SpaceX's rival has 'genius' plan to cut rocket cost
- Spinnor
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NASA [NASA] Cosmological projects instead of space exploration
- BlackholeGirl
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Lunar spacecraft design for 8-10 crew with dual lander capacity
- HellRanger2558
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Recirculation zone and wake at supersonic and hypersonic speeds behind blunt bodies
- aero5682
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How does the CH-47 Chinook balance itself?
- roineust
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How can I calculate the required thrust for my model rocket design?
- uzt
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No drag thin airfoil theory / Pressure drag
- PHstud
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ANSYS - Radiation of a satellite - Surface-to-surface or to-ambient
- Ricardo Gomes
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Effective Reynolds Number for a swept wing
- Murmur79
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Non-coherent spread spectrum for distance measurement
- senmeis
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Can Smaller Rockets with Less Fuel Mass Lower the Cost of Space Travel?
- chandrahas
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At supersonic speed, why does Mach number decrease?
- TimeRip496
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NASA RIP Bruce McCandless, NASA, Astronaut
- Astronuc
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NASA NASA finalists for New Frontiers: Rosetta's comet or Titan
- mfb
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Force distribution on engaged sprocket teeth in chain drive systems
- darthapple35
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Regression rate of fuel in rocket nozzle
- TimeRip496
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Can a Carbon Dioxide Vent on a Mars Rover Solve Dust Buildup on Solar Panels?
- roineust
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What does FL represent in the drag coefficient equation?
- sam_smk
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How do expansion fan reflections cancel flow deviation at the centerline?
- TimeRip496
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Maximum pressure for a combustion chamber
- Franz Rojas Ayala
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I on my rocket engine thrust equation
- Monomethylhydrazine
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Calculating suction area around the intake of a jet engine
- stevero390
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Turbo-Jet Engine for Medium RC Aircraft
- Arnendu Barman
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Turbojet -- I with an explanation about how a turbojet works
- Lugonja
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NASA NASA selects early science targets for JWST
- mfb
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Anomalous accelerations in spacecraft flybys of the Earth
- wolram
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How Do You Calculate Helicopter Rotor Lift Using the Lift Equation?
- Jeffsg605
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Launch of the Sspace Shuttle and its effect on the Earth's motion
- EMguy
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How does AAW work? (Active Aeroelastic Wings)
- TimeRip496
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Boeing GoFly Prize: $2 million challenge for personal flying devices
- RonL
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What disciplines do I need for building a Quadcopter?
- JimBakker
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Can multiple weak lasers combine to match one powerful laser for missile defense?
- Evanish
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NASA NASA LROC Quickmap lunar imagery tool
- davenn
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Chordwise location of lift for wing structural design
- Seraphin2288
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Energy requirement for melting through five klicks of ice?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Can space lasers power aircraft with unlimited range?
- GurfX
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Coupling two mechanical pieces for a telescope mount
- Deven Patel
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Why don't ion thrusters work within the atmosphere?
- yrjosmiel
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Maximum delta-v of a rocket engine
- yrjosmiel
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Finding the Coefficient of Drag for Partial Parachutes
- David Bloom
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Multiple rotors on a wind turbine
- unseeingdog
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Nozzle/Turbine at the Molecular Level
- HungryX2Hippo
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1,000 mph four inches off the ground
- Noisy Rhysling
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SpaceX In 2018 SpaceX will fly two tourists around the moon
- Greg Bernhardt
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Pump efficiency in variable space vacuum tank with expanding bladder
- ccc1522
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Can a spaceship be powered solely by solar energy?
- Mayed Al-Tunaiji
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IR Seeking Guidance for a Missle Project
- Tracey3
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NASA What do we learn from eclipse that the NASA IRIS doesn't tell us?
- FactChecker
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NASA NASA Eclipse Calculations Accuracy
- Xilus
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Does turbopump turbine inlet act like a Laval nozzle?
- Olaf Willocx
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How do i use this performance graph
- MattH150197
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Relating propeller thrust, power, and rpm together
- pacgcrosss
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Is it possible for electric flight packs to exist like jets?
- Tabaristiio
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Is it possible to fly horizontally using augmented fly pack?
- Tabaristiio
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What is the cause of normal stress on a fluid element?
- benny_91
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Launching a rocket from high altitude
- Sullyyy
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Rear mounted engines vs. front mounted for UAVs
- octo3
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Weird aerospace question to probably be corrected
- octo3
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Insights How does an airplane wing work?
- boneh3ad
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How mass flow and pressure ratio is related in case of a Gas Turbine
- Ady707
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Stratolaunch carrier plane, active vibration reduction?
- Spinnor
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Could you create thrust with water vapor?
- AmateurGuy
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Difference between normal viscous stress and pressure
- MaxKang
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Magnetic assisted rocket engine
- EL_bob
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NASA NASA's Mars Plan May Include a Yearlong Mission to the Moon
- Zahid Hasan
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Could the Sea Dragon Rocket Have Revolutionized Space Travel?
- Moretorque
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Torsional Vibration of Rotor-Shaft
- chinmay
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Control Volume of single expansion ramp nozzle (SERN)
- obad
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Determination of Static Presssure on an Airfoil
- kepler456
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Can a Custom Radial Fan Lift a Human-Transporting VTOL Drone?
- marcoravelli
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SpaceX SpaceX to conduct a manned flyby mission around the moon
- Monsterboy
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Do Airliners Rely on Gravity or Motor Pumps for Fuel Flow?
- Blue Scallop
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Water-air ratio and nozzle diameter for 1.5L bottle rocket at 75 psi
- Heat5444
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Free vibration of 100 DOF spring
- kajalschopra
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NASA NASA consolidates image collections into single online library
- BillTre
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NASA NASA Flight Tracking Station: The Guaymas Story (1967)
- Zheng Tien
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Aircraft model in a wind tunnel and the full size version
- mech-eng
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Can Older Aircraft Achieve Supercruise with Upgraded Engines?
- Delta Force
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Sprockets, chains, and gears question
- Le Luc
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What do you know about the new space plane
- wolram
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How is the moment of inertia of airplanes measured?
- ramzerimar
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NASA NASA support for a "new" kind of propulsion
- Buzz Bloom
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Using a propeller to excavate sand under a boat
- Garry
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Can mini-drone propellers kill insects and damage jet engines?
- Blue Scallop
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Could a ballistic missile be used to deliver cargo?
- BoeingJet
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[Question] Did I figure out the Space Shuttle's momentum?
- TandN51316
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Fire suppression in a sealed system
- Robert House
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