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NASA Open Sources Aircraft Design Software

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 15, 2012 @05:21AM from the build-a-plane dept.

First time accepted submitter sabre86 writes "At the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Nashville, NASA engineers unveiled the newly open sourced OpenVSP, software that allows users to construct full aircraft models from simple parameters such as wing span and fuselage length, under the NASA Open Source Agreement. Says the website, 'OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters. This model can be processed into formats suitable for engineering analysis.'"

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Re:None of my parameters work :/ by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-15 07:10 · Score: 0, Insightful

I tried, big, fast, pretty...
... and it drew me an A380!
That's because you didn't include safe.
NASA has more brains&balls than GPU vendors? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-15 07:26 · Score: 0, Insightful

LOL. If NASA can open source this--why wont the gpu vendors give us their docs!?!
Just sayin'....
Re:rethink plane designs for safety in emergencies by khallow · 2012-01-15 09:00 · Score: 2, Insightful

Fighter pilots may suffer injury, but at least they have a better chance of living than passengers of a jumbo jet.
You do realize that even with ejection seats, just flying a fighter plane is far more dangerous than flying in a jumbo jet?