interesting
articles and homepages
Interesting articles
Own Projects
Technical Pages on -mostly- earthbound
Machines
Aircraft Manufacturers
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Airbus
- Aviations Main Link and Central information page
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DG
Flugzeugbau - sailplanes with superb performance and engine self-start
capability
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Grob
Areospace - sailplanes and other great projects
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Stemme
- Another most interesting and genial approach to motorglider
Aircraft Incidents
Friends..
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Gallery - pictures
of some of my friends
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Jimmy's homepage
- a collection of anything you never missed before
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Consultant
- if you are encountering electronics/microcontroller-related design and
performance problems, here's a site to even the odds
Newspapers
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Sperrmüll
- my favorite advertising newspaper for the southern Germany region
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Zeitungen
- mostly German newspapers
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Cowles
Media - all kinds of eccentric enthusiast magazines
Dictionary /Languages
Weather
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".
. .to design an aeroplane is nothing;
to
build an aeroplane is something;
but
to fly an aeroplane is EVERYTHING!"
Otto
Lilienthal (1849-1896)
...well...
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Homebuilt
Aircraft resources...
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AEROAUTO
PSRU - Conversion of Automotive drives for Aeronautical Purposes
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AeroCrafter
- Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook
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Aircraft
Engines - links to aviation reciprocating engine
resources
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Aircraft
Engines Directory- more links to aviation engine
resources
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Aircraft
Spruce and Specialty
- one of the primary homebuilding sources for
anything aviation
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Aircraft
Tool and Supply - online catalog and ordering information
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Aviation
Parts Locator - free service to sell or locate parts for your aircraft
project
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The Berkut
Homepage - carbon-fiber version of the Long-eze w/ retractable gear
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Building
the Berkut
- a Texan is posting his composite building experience online
for you to follow along...
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Building
the GlaStar - or you can see how riveting is done.
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Building
the Velocity - has some good information for any homebuilder
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Building
the larger Velocity XL- a homebuilder working on a quick-build kit
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The
Canard's Aviator Page - Longeze's, Varieze's, Rutan derivatives. .
.
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Doug
Fortunes' Homebuilt and Kit Aircraft Compendium
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Delta
Hawk Aircraft Engines - 200 hp, V-4, 2-stroke diesel liquid-cooled
engines
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Dyna-Cam
Engines - 200 hp swash-plate piston engines with
turbine shape
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E-Racer
Hangar Flying - another canard derivative
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EXPERIMENTAL
AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION - Main Home Page
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FAA
Experimental Aircraft Handbook - Rules and Regulations that all homebuilders
should abide by
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Homebuilt
aircraft locator - searches for experimental aircraft by N-number
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Dave
Morss - Test Pilot and EAA Flight Advisor
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Kitplanes
- The inside magazine for all boys dreaming of building their own plane
- like me
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Muscle
Bi-Planes
- planes w/ more static thrust than weight; check the motor
write-up
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Polymerland
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distributor of thermoplastic and engineering resins
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Rec.Aviation.Homebuilt
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a homebuilt usenet group
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Replica
Fighters Association - group dedicated to designing scaled fighter
aircraft replicas
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Sea
and Sky Aviation - R. Wanttaja's an aerospace engineer and aviation
author
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Seawind
- fabulously ingenious seaplane design: four-place amphibious aircraft
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Stormbirds
- Great pages on the reconstruction of the most astounding jet ever: the
ME 262
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U.W.
Wind-tunnel
- test your designs before scale-up
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The Ultralight
Flyer Online - information for light-heads
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Used
Machinery and Equipment - online database of used equipment and vehicles
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Wankel
- Rotary engines at its best for aeronautical
use, even Diesels!!
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Wicks
Aircraft Supply - materials, kit, and supply specialists
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Zoche Aero-diesel
- 2-stroke, super-charged, turbo-charged, radial diesel engines
Aviation
server sites. . .
".
. .we all walk through the alleyway,
but few of us look up to the stars.."
Oscar
Wilde
Engineering
& Technical. . .
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AeroLogic
WWW Home Page - desktop CFD software
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Aeronautics
and Astronautics Library - MIT resource listings
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Aircraft
Design Information Source - categorized textbook information for aircraft
designers
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Applied
Aerodynamics Design Group - an aeronautical team at Stanford U.; nice
resources
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ASME
Resources - online resources for the Mechanical Engineering
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AutoCAD
Best Ten Web Sites
- tips, tricks, and shareware for the Daddy of CAD
programs
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AutoDesk
Software Support - upgrades and updates for AutoCAD and it's support
programs
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CADRE-
FEA Software for the PC (shareware); limited nodes and elements, but works
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Catalog
of the Engineering Case Library - database of engineering cases sorted
by discipline
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Chemical
Periodic Table - extensive chemical properties right on your browser
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Chemistry
WebBook - thermochemical, thermophysical, boiling pt. data, more. .
.
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Compressible
Aerodynamics calculator - Isentropic flow, Normal shock, and Oblique
shock relations.
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Computational
Fluid Dynamics & Applied Combustion Modelling - CFD laboratory
w/ good resources for engineers
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Consultant
- if you are encountering electronics/microcontroller-related design and
performance problems, here's a site to even the odds
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Cycle-Pad
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freeware package from NWU and Naval Academy for analysis of thermo-dynamic
cycles
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DesignInfo
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search hundreds of digital engineering catalogs
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Engineering
Software Company
- developer of structural-analysis software for Windows
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Engineering
Virtual Library - extensive list of links to engineering sites on the
Web
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FEA
- Catalog of electronically available FE software with pointer to general
FE resources
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FEA
mesh - Information on finite element mesh generation
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Fluid
Mechanics Related Web Pages - the name says it all
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Fluid
Mechanics On-line Textbook - a full engineering text on MIT's site
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German
Manufacturers Register - Listing of German manufacturers - incomplete
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German
Manufacturers Search Engine - Seibt
Online.
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Gas
Turbines - company involved in engineering turbines for various applications
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Grid
Generation Thrust - unstructured block element algorithm research for
CFD
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Industry
Net - good way to stay in touch with what's happening in manufacturing;
database of engineering software is excellent
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International
Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics - big name = big thinking
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Invention
and Design - Multimedia Tutorial (Text and Images). Learn how to prepare
a patent!
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Journal
of Mechanical Design (JMD) - database of journal articles published
by ASME
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Machine
Design - online magazine for ME designers
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Materials
and Engineering Lab - government agency with excellent materials database
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MathCAD
Applications - collection of electronic documents for a number of disciplines
(thru 7.0)
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Mathematics
Resources- compiled by Caltech's Center for Applied Mathematics
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Mechanics
Equations / Software - listing of useful equations for mechanical properties
of materials
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Mechanical
Analysis Home-page - source for links to a number of resources for
ME's
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Metals
Ignition and Flammability Database - Data from the promoted combustion,
frictional heating, and particle impact tests
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mTAB
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FEA software for the PC running AutoCAD
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Multipoint
Aerodynamic Design- NASA software for designers
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NACA
Report Server - pre-NASA (1919-1958) publications listings and archive
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NASA
COSMIC - software distribution site
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NASA
Report Server
- searches all or selective NASA sites
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Nerdworld
Engineering - site with nice varied assortment of engr. related links
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NfmInc
- very affordable ingenious 3D LASER Scanners for high speed profile measurement
(up to µ-range)
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Physical
References Data - National Institute of Standards & Technology
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ProENGINEER
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THE program for mechanical designers; only workstations need apply
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Properties
of Materials Database -data on over 30,000 plastics, metals, composites,
ceramics, rubbers and adhesives from over 300 mfrs. (fees req'd.)
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Roncz
Design Software - spreadsheet from one of the leading aerodynamicists
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SAE
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Society of Automotive Engineers home page
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Science
and Technology Pocketbook - gov't compilation of statistical data (questionable
value)
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Scaled
Speeds - engineering information on scale modeling of aircraft designs
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Shape
Optimization Algorithm - generalized zeroth-order, two- and three-dimensional
shape optimization
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SAVIAC
- Shock & Vibration Information Analysis Center
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Technical
Writing Course - resumes, technical reports, proposals, etc.
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The
Thermal Connection - heat transfer properties database (thermal data)
and instruction
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Thermochemical
Calculator (TCC)
- good source for online psychrometrics, stoichiometry,
etc.
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Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers - listing of 155,000 US and Canadian
manufacturers; search by product, manufacturer, or model
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University
of Adelaide - Applied Computational Fluid Mechanics Group
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UIUC
Airfoil Data Site - 1150 airfoils in database
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Vanguard
ethanol powered aircraft project - the future is here!
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