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McMasters was born in Taft, California and fell in love with airplanes in 1943 when his uncle gave him a private "air show" in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. [1] [2] After completing high school, he went on to earn BS and MS degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1960 and 1962 and a PhD from Purdue University in 1975, all in Aeronautical Engineering.
In the United States, classroom projects and competitions can operate under the aegis of the Technology Student Association at middle school and high school levels. [3] [4] Competitions are sometimes featured in local newspapers. [5] Students learn about the forces of gravity, drag, wind resistance, and the motion of air as a fluid.
As a student of San Diego High School, in San Diego, California, Freel learned about aerodynamics under the instruction of LeTain Kittredge, in the aircraft rigging/woodshop class. Before his graduation, Freel designed a 36-inch experimental free flight model of a flying wing glider. The model flew well enough to justify moving to a full size ...
The X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) development program is a completed American research project that was undertaken jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing Phantom Works and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, where the technology was flight tested on a modified McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.
Aerodynamics is also important in the prediction of forces and moments acting on sailing vessels. It is used in the design of mechanical components such as hard drive heads. Structural engineers resort to aerodynamics, and particularly aeroelasticity, when calculating wind loads in the design of large buildings, bridges, and wind turbines.
Bevirt had been interested in engineering since his childhood and built one of the world’s first full-suspension mountain bikes while in high school. [1] He co-founded Velocity11 [8] in 1999 to develop robotic laboratory systems for life sciences discovery. The company was later acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2007. [7]
Guru Guruswamy is an American engineer working as Principal Scientist at Ames Research Center since 1988. [1] He pioneered research in the area of computational aeroelasticity [2] [3] that involves Unsteady Aerodynamics, Finite Element Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Computing and Problem-Solving Environment.
The NASA Oblique Wing Research Aircraft, the predecessor to the AD-1. The first known oblique wing design was the Blohm & Voss P.202, proposed by Richard Vogt in 1942. [1] The oblique wing concept was later promoted by Robert T. Jones, an aeronautical engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.