This is the place for people who love airplanes and the technical aspects of aircraft design. Created in 1994 by well-known aircraft designer Dr. Dan Raymer, this website has been up and popular since the earliest days of the internet.
Here you’ll find aircraft and spacecraft related books including engineering texts such as Dr. Raymer’s Aircraft Design : A Conceptual Approach and more general-audience titles such as Raymer’s Simplified Aircraft Design for Homebuilders and his Living In The Future: The Education and Adventures of an Advanced Aircraft Designer.
The RDSwin aircraft design software is presented, along with its methods and use.
Dr. Raymer’s short courses in aircraft, spacecraft, and UAV design are described here and announced when registrations begin. You really need to take one of his classes – bucket list, if you love aircraft and spacecraft design.
There’s free content here to help aircraft designers, such as actual new aircraft design layouts, Raymer’s career advice, a generic report format, acronyms and abbreviations, and hard-to-find classic aircraft weights analysis reports. Dr. Raymer’s design-related publications are here too, all free except his books (sorry). You can even find his streamlined cheesecake recipe.
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Alert: If you have purchased the latest version of RDSwin-Student from AIAA, the downloaded file might ask you for an extract password. Use RDS4AIAA. If you haven’t purchased the latest version of RDSwin-Student, why not? 😁😁 https://arc.aiaa.org/do/10.2514/4.107337/full/. And beware – any version that is still delivered as a CD is obsolete and may even be pirated.
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