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Finding Airfoil Data For Amateur Projects?

Posted by Cliff on from the digging-for-the-data dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I am an aerospace engineering student who is engaged in an amateur project. A major hurdle I am having is finding modern airfoil data which can be used for a non-profit project. As most aerospace engineers know, just about all modern airfoil data are guarded industry secrets, so building an amateur project that requires precise airfoil data is difficult, because of the lack of available modern information. There is plenty of dated airfoil data from the 1960s or earlier, but my project requires access to modern data. Note that I do not have access to a wind tunnel to procure this data on my own. Where would one find free modern airfoil data for use in an amateur project?"

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  2. How the fsk should we know.... by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I mean, really... I'd google it up for you if I wasn't so busy keeping the script kiddies out of the redhat boxs and trying to figure out how a 10-year old perl scrip is supposed to work and writing an interrupt driver in x86 assy. Call up fsking NASA and ask them. Or go watch a Wright brothers movie and get inspired to build your own wind tunnel and warping wings. Yeah, right. Ask fsking slashdot about airfoils...

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  3. Re:XFoil warning. heed this warning of face rtbl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    see how fast the editors slap this down.

    its proof its true. its proof.

  4. Re:x-plane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
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