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Podcast Ep. #23 – Samy Libsig on eXalt Aircraft’s Vision of Designing a New Breed of Sport Airplanes

On January 29, 2019 · In Aircraft, Personal Aviation, Podcast, Sport Airplanes, Startup

Samy Libsig is one of the founders of the sport aircraft startup eXalt Aircraft Inc. eXalt currently comprises a team of three engineers that are bringing a unique combination of fresh design thinking and engineering experience to the world of sport airplanes. The vision of eXalt is to turn the sky into a playground […]

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Podcast Ep. #18 – Prof. Wenbin Yu on the Structure Genome

On October 2, 2018 · In Composite Materials, Modelling, Novel Materials/Tailored Structures, Podcast, Structural Mechanics

On this episode I am speaking to Wenbin Yu, who is a professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Purdue University and CTO of AnalySwift, a provider of simulation software for composites. Wenbin has achieved many accolades in both the academic world and in the private sector, and is a fellow of the American […]

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The Evolution of Airplanes

On December 9, 2014 · In Bio-mimicry, General Aerospace, History

Adrian Bejan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University and as an offshoot from his thermodynamics research he has pondered the question why evolution exists in natural i.e. biological and geophysical, and man-made i.e. technological realms. To account for the progress of design in evolution Prof. Bejan conceived the constructal […]

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Loads Acting on Aircraft

On February 2, 2014 · In General Aerospace

The flight envelope of an aeroplane can be divided into two regimes. The first is rectilinear flight in a straight line, i.e. the aircraft does not accelerate normal to the direction of flight. The second is curvilinear flight, which, as the name suggests, involves flight in a curved path with acceleration normal to tangential flight […]

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Jet Engine Design: Turbine Cooling

On May 1, 2013 · In Aerodynamics, Technology

As I described in a previous post, the efficiency of the gas turbine cycle increases as the turbine entry temperature (TET) is increased. Therefore the hotter the combustion gases that enter the first turbine stage the more specific power the jet engine can produce. Of course the TET is […]

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