Basics
Loads Acting on Aircraft
The flight envelope of an aeroplane can be divided into two regimes. The first is rectilinear flight in…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
Basics
Engineering – A Manifesto
“Engineering is not the handmaiden of physics any more than medicine is of biology” What is science? And…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
Risk and failure in complex engineering systems
“We must ensure this never happens again.” This is a common reaction to instances of catastrophic failure. However,…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
Antifragility and Aircraft Design
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “Antifragility” in his book of the same name. Antifragility describes objects that gain from random…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
NASA Langley Research Center
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of working on a research project at NASA’s Langley Research Centre.…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
Three essential engineering skills and the state of modern technology
John Partridge is the founder of the deap-sea instrumentation company Sonardyne, and also graduated from the University of…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
The History of Rocket Science
Rocket technology has evolved for more than 2000 years. Today’s rockets are a product of a long tradition…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
Dimensional Analysis: From Atomic Bombs to Wind Tunnel Testing
Despite the growing computer power and increasing sophistication of computational models, any design meant operate in the real…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
The von Kármán Vortex Street and Tacoma Narrows Disaster
On November 8, 1940 newspapers across America opened with the headline “TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE COLLAPSES”. The headline caught…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi NathanBasics
The Birth of the Jet: The Engine that Shrunk the World
In today’s time it is easy to take for granted the complex inventions that alleviate our everyday life.…
July 26, 2021 · Boomi Nathan