Aero Design Team Online - a wealth of knowledge about aeronautics, the science of flight, at your fingertips. Meet scientists and engineers doing aeronautics design research at NASA.
Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator - intended to replace printed tables. Computes (forward and backward) functions for isentropic flow, and normal and oblique shock waves.
FanWing - a new high lift, efficient wing which produces both lift and thrust. Photos of models and test flights.
Flight Deck Automation Issues - describes a study to identify possible human factors (ergonomics) problems with commercial aircraft automation.
Giovanni Cecchelli's Homesite - devoted to fly by wire technology and various topics regarding aerospace science, fluid dynamics, and aerospace jobs.
How Things Fly - based on an exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum.
How Wings Really Work - faults of Bernoulli-based wing theory are described, and more appropriate theory is presented in terms of air mass acceleration and reaction according to Newtonian principles.
Journal of Aerospace Engineering - international communication forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge on technology in space between civil engineers and those in related disciplines from nations across the globe.
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility Software - information about supercomputer systems software and support tools to scientific visualization applications from this division of the NASA Ames Research Centre.
San Diego Aerospace Museum - experience aviation's history from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle and beyond.
Slingshot Effect, The - how spacecraft accelerate in planetary flybys by gravity assist.
Spacecraft Avionics - a description of the functions performed and the architecture of the avionics on a generic spacecraft, with a description of each of the 18 functions.
Thai Technics.com - presents aircraft and helicopter information, history of men on the moon, and pictures. Also in Thai.
Vertical Navigation (VNAV) - description of functions and events from takeoff to missed approach. For the Boeing 777.
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