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Finding Airfoil Data For Amateur Projects?
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?"
Could someone explain exactly what airfoil data is? I can conjure up some ideas, but IANAE.
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Somebody report that guy to the FBI.
Oh you get all worked up about an AC account, but I bet you didn't even vote in the last election.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
Until I googled, I had no idea what an 'airfoil' was, the word isn't in my English dictionary here in England.
Turns out he's just asking about Aerofoils but it's one of those words that the Americans spell wrong, like 'color' and 'potatoe'.
I suggest he tries all the places he already looked, but use the spelling the rest of the world uses.
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
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