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The exploitation of conventional, continuous fibre-reinforced plastics in engineering structures has been steadily diversifying from sports equipment and high performance…
At the start of the 19th century, after studying the highly cambered thin wings of many different birds, Sir George…
The material we covered in the last two posts (skin friction and pressure drag) allows us to consider a fun little problem:…
Understanding the details of the atmosphere is critical for manned flight since it provides the medium through which the aircraft…
Every aircraft has a certain operational environment, including aspects of flight and ground operations, that it is designed to serve in throughout…
The flight envelope of an aeroplane can be divided into two regimes. The first is rectilinear flight in a straight…
“Engineering is not the handmaiden of physics any more than medicine is of biology” What is science? And how is…
“We must ensure this never happens again.” This is a common reaction to instances of catastrophic failure. However, in complex…
In the early 20th century, a group of German scientists led by Ludwig Prandtl at the University of Göttingen began studying the fundamental nature…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “Antifragility” in his book of the same name. Antifragility describes objects that gain from random perturbations, i.e.…
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of working on a research project at NASA’s Langley Research Centre. Apart from…
John Partridge is the founder of the deap-sea instrumentation company Sonardyne, and also graduated from the University of Bristol, my…
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