Web Resources

Aeronautics

Aircraft Design Workshop - Sponsored by Desktop Aeronautics. Try your hand at the design of a 200 passenger airliner, flying from Washington D.C. to the destination of your choice.

Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics - NASA Glenn Research Center - Learning Technologies Project (LTP)

Beginner's Guide to Propulsion - NASA Glenn Research Center - Learning Technologies Project (LTP)

Introduction to Flight Test Maneuvers -NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Introduction to Flight Test Maneuvers. This introduction provides a glimpse into the science of flight testing. This introduction provides detailed explanations and images of maneuvers, flight test procedures, and how data is collected.

The Jet Genesis, University of Southampton, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Java Gas Turbine Simulation - This work was funded in part by the Computing and Interdisciplinary System Office (CISO) at NASA Lewis Research Center, under grant NCC-3-207, Greg Follen, Grant Monitor.

Laboratories of Flight: Wind Tunnels - Wind tunnels play a major role in the design and development of virtually all aircraft flying today. Come take our tour and learn about their origins and how they work. Sponsored by NASA.

Principles of Aeronautics -Advanced Text - The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook " is an electronic multimedia text, teachers' supplement and student workbook designed to be used over the Internet in conjunction with the World Wide Web. Published on behalf of the K8AIT project.

Regimes of Flight - Online Literature Picture Book, by Susanne Ashby. Learn about the different flight speeds. Here you will learn about flight at low, medium, high, supersonic and hypersonic speeds. NASA sponsored site.

Wind Tunnels - NASA Glenn Research Center - Learning Technologies Project