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Day 1
Introduction
Day 2
History of Aviation
- Beginning: In these times that we live in it is a clear fact that anything heavier than air can fly. We have metallic
tubes flying around and about the sky above us. But exactly a hundred and five years ago humans had nothing but this
rooted instinct imprinted in each and every one of us, curiosity. Humans back then never had the chance to take into
the skies and fly like the birds, but our curiosity pushed us further, destroying the boundaries of human flight.
If we look at the timeline of aviation history, (source wikipedia) it is amazing to note that the study or the desire to fly
traces back to 1700BC, I'm pretty sure you're familiar with the story of Icarus and Daedalus, who in summary, were able
to fly using wings made from feather and wax.
Imprisoned on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, Daedalus is said to have made wings fastened with wax.
With these wings, they both escaped by flying through the air. However, Icarus, against his father's warnings, flew too
close to the sun; the wax melted, and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.
Daedalus, being Icarus' father while they were in flight warns Icarus to neither fly too low nor too high, so the sea's
dampness would not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them.
All early thinking of human flight centered on the imitation of birds. Various unsung ancient and medieval
people fashioned wings and met with sometimes disastrous and always unsuccessful consequences in leaping
from towers or roofs, flapping vigorously.
In time, the idea of strapping a pair of wings to arms fell out of favor. It was replaced by the concept of wings
flapped up and down by various mechanical mechanisms, powered by some type of human arm, leg, or body
movement.
These machines are called ornithopters. Recent historical research has uncovered that Leonardo da Vinci
himself was possessed by the idea of human flight and that he designed vast numbers of ornithopters toward
the end of the fifteenth century. In his surviving manuscripts, over 35,000 words and 500 sketches deal with
flight.
It is not known whether da Vinci ever built or tested any of his designs. However, human-powered flight by
flapping wings was always doomed to failure. In this sense, da Vinci's efforts did not make important
contributions to the technical advancement of flight.
Human efforts to fly literally got off the ground on November 21, 1783, when a balloon carrying Pilatre de Rozier and
the Marquis d' Arlandes ascended into the air and drifted 5 miles across Paris.
So people were finally off the ground! Balloons. Made no real technical contributions to human heavier-than-air flight.
However, they served a major purpose in triggering the public's interest in flight through the air.
One notable study was of Sir George Cayley considered to be the father of Aeronautics, a British inventor who set forth
the concept of modern airplane as a fixed wing flying machine rather than a movable wing. He is noted for discovering
and identifying the forces which acts on a heavier than air flying vehicle, namely Lift, Drag and Thrust. Take note, he
discovered this only in 1799.
It was the first concept to include a fixed wing for generating lift, another separate mechanism for propulsion (Cayley
envisioned paddles), and a combined horizontal and vertical (cruciform) tail for stability.
Before this time, thoughts of mechanical flight had been oriented towards the flapping wings of ornithopters, where the
flapping motion was supposed to provide both lift and propulsion.
One notable study was of Sir George Cayley considered to be the father of Aeronautics, a British inventor who set forth
the concept of modern airplane as a fixed wing flying machine rather than a movable wing. He is noted for discovering
and identifying the forces which acts on a heavier than air flying vehicle, namely Lift, Drag and Thrust. Take note, he
discovered this only in 1799.
It was the first concept to include a fixed wing for generating lift, another separate mechanism for propulsion (Cayley
envisioned paddles), and a combined horizontal and vertical (cruciform) tail for stability.
Before this time, thoughts of mechanical flight had been oriented towards the flapping wings of ornithopters, where the
flapping motion was supposed to provide both lift and propulsion.
However, Cayley is responsible for breaking this unsuccessful line of thought; he separated the concept of lift from
propulsion and, in so doing, set into motion a century of aeronautical development that culminated in the Wright
brothers' success in 1903. George Cayley is a giant in aeronautical history: he is the parent of modem aviation and is the
first true aeronautical engineer.
William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) was a contemporary of Cayley. In April 1843, he published in England a design for a
fixed-wing airplane powered by a steam engine driving two propellers. Called the aerial steam carriage.
Henson's design was a direct product of George Cayley's ideas and research in aeronautics. The aerial steam carriage
was never built, but the design, along with its widely published pictures, served to engrave George Cayley's fixed-wing
concept on the minds of virtually all subsequent workers. Thus, even though Cayley's published papers fell into
obscurity after his death, his major concepts were partly absorbed and perpetuated by following generations of
inventors, even though most of these inventors did not know the true source of the ideas
John Stringfellow, a friend of Henson, made several efforts to bring Henson's design to fruition. Stringfellow built several
small steam engines and attempted to power some model monoplanes off the ground. He was close, but unsuccessful
During this period, almost all other countries have developed their own airplanes based on the design of George
Cayley, it may have actually flown but only for a couple of seconds, they were not flying, they were only hopping.
-The airplane must sustain itself freely in a horizontal or rising flight path without loss of airspeed
-It must be influenced by any momentum build up before it left the ground (Airspeed must be increasing)
- The machine can be kept in satisfactory equilibrium, must have full controllability.
1848 Otto Lilienthal - The Glider Man: Used the concept of the George Cayley's fixed wing aircraft to make a glider, thus
furthering the development of flight controls, Otto Lilienthal used cambered airfoil shapes on the wing and incorporated
vertical and horizontal tails for stability.
On Sunday, August 9, 1896, Lilienthal was gliding from the Gollenberg hill near Stollen in Germany. It was a fine
summer's day. However, a temporary gust of wind brought Lilienthal's monoplane glider to a standstill; he stalled and
crashed to the ground. Only the wing was crumpled; the rest of the glider was undamaged. However, Lilienthal was
carried away with a broken spine. He died the next day in the Bergmann Clinic in Berlin. During the course of his life,
Lilienthal remarked several times that "sacrifices must be made." This epitaph is carved on his gravestone in Lichterfelde
cemetery.
Came forth the nineteenth Century, where the industrial revolution came to play. During most of the nineteenth
century, powered flight was looked upon in a brute-force manner: build an engine strong enough to drive an airplane,
slap it on an airframe strong enough to withstand the forces and generate the lift, and presumably you could get into
the air.
Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French-born naturalized citizen who lived in Chicago. Chanute was a civil engineer who
became interested in mechanical flight about 1875. For the next 35 years, he collected, absorbed, and assimilated every
piece of aeronautical information he could find. This culminated in 1894 with the publishing of his book entitled
Progress in Flying Machines, a work that ranks with Lilienthal's Der Vogeljlug as one of the great classics in aeronautics.
There's another Pre-Wright Brother's Aeronautical Engineer, named Samuel Pierpont Langley, (1834-1906) tirelessly
designing and building a series of powered aircraft, which finally culminated in two attempted piloted flights, both in
1903, just weeks before the Wrights' success on December 17.He designed an aircraft fitted with an engine that can
produce 52.4 hp, he made a successful flight with a quarter scale model aircraft in the August of 1903, Encouraged by
this success, Langley stepped directly to the full-size airplane.
October 7, 1903, the airplane was ready for its first attempt. The launching was given wide advance publicity, and the
press was present to watch what might be the first successful powered flight in history, but it still failed, he tried again
and still failed.
Nine days after Langley's second failure, December 17 1903 the Wright Flyer 1 rose from the sands of Kill Devil Hills.
Flying as high as 852 ft and remaining in the air for 59 s
produce 52.4 hp, he made a successful flight with a quarter scale model aircraft in the August of 1903, Encouraged by
this success, Langley stepped directly to the full-size airplane.
October 7, 1903, the airplane was ready for its first attempt. The launching was given wide advance publicity, and the
press was present to watch what might be the first successful powered flight in history, but it still failed, he tried again
and still failed.
Nine days after Langley's second failure, December 17 1903 the Wright Flyer 1 rose from the sands of Kill Devil Hills.
Flying as high as 852 ft and remaining in the air for 59 s
Moving forward exactly a 105 years later, it's amazing that we didnt follow the words of Daedalus, for once again he
said, But amazingly as human as we can be, we did not heed the words of Daedalus.
Neither fly too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog your wings nor the sun's heat melt them.
Instead, in our modern day, we made airplanes which can fly as close to the sun, and can fly low too close to the water.
We have seaplanes, we have spacecrafts and we have our regular airplanes flying around and about.
So the thing here is, flying was only made possible by only two human characteristics, and that is Curiosity
and Hard Headedness.
I'm not saying that.... but I want you to have the hard headedness to learn.
Day 2
Theory of Flight
Let us further look at the principles of flight, and that's what we will tackle today. The general concept is this, in order for
airplane to fly it must overcome its own weight by generating enough airspeed to lift the airplane and to overcome the
resisting force as a result of air flowing through an object to keep the aircraft moving forward.
So with our study of aerodynamics back in 3rd year, we all know that there are only just 4 forces involved to make flight
possible, and these are
Weight - Is the force of gravity. It acts in a downward direction towards the center of the earth.
Thrust - Thrust is the force that propels the machine forward.
Theory of Flight
Let us further look at the principles of flight, and that's what we will tackle today. The general concept is this, in order for
airplane to fly it must overcome its own weight by generating enough airspeed to lift the airplane and to overcome the
resisting force as a result of air flowing through an object to keep the aircraft moving forward.
So with our study of aerodynamics back in 3rd year, we all know that there are only just 4 forces involved to make flight
possible, and these are
Weight - Is the force of gravity. It acts in a downward direction towards the center of the earth.
Thrust - Thrust is the force that propels the machine forward.
Drag - It is the consequence of thrust, by newton's third law. (We'll get back to this later). If we also look at Drag,
microscopically, it is caused by frictin and the differences in air pressure.
Lift - Is the force that acts at a right angle to the direction of motion through the air. Lift is created by the differences in air
pressure.
The whole principle of flight is really just the Newton's law in action. Now look closely,
Newton's Laws
So picture this:
Airplane just there on the runway not moving or anything. Does it move if I do nothing? or Does it remain in its current st
we push or pull on that aircraft? No right? A clear proof of Newton's Law of Inertia.
Now as we turn on the engine and max out the power, there is a pushing force generated by the engine, and that pushing
force is being generated by the acceleration of the aircraft. That's Newton's Second Law
and lastly as the aircraft starts to rolls down the runway, that exact same force is generating a reaction force called: Drag,
inorder to move that aircraft Thrust must be greater than drag.
So although we say Thrust is greater than drag, and Lift is greater than Weight, especially during take off, eventually thing
stabilize and equilibrium will take place, the aircraft will be in a stabilized climb that it will continue to climb if there is no
action done upon.
So after the aircraft takes off, and establishes itself on a cruise, here things becomes much more interesting, as the airplan
on a cruise all the other forces are in equilibrium, Lift = Weight, this can be easily noted because the aircraft isn't climbing
anymore it is maintaining altitude, Thrust = Drag, this can be noted by checking the airplane's speed, it isn't changing it is
constant state, therefore the 4 forces are in equilibrium, so it's back to the original state of which the airplane is just there
the runway, nothing is happening!
But why is it the the airplane is still flying, why isn't it stopping in its motion?
Ill give you a moment to think about it.
give up?
Law of inertia, again if an object is at rest it will remain at rest unless it is disturbed, and the object will remain at motion
unless it is disturbed.
the runway, nothing is happening!
But why is it the the airplane is still flying, why isn't it stopping in its motion?
Ill give you a moment to think about it.
give up?
Law of inertia, again if an object is at rest it will remain at rest unless it is disturbed, and the object will remain at motion
unless it is disturbed.
So if someone asks you how is it possible that an airplane can fly and remain in the air without falling, just tell them it's ju
basic physics :)
Alright, so now since we're on the topic of Subsonic Aerodynamics let us first go back to the basics in order for us to have
fixed view of what we are studying.
Now everytime I ask you to simply imagine the airplane or everytime you answer questions involving aerodynamics I wan
to think about the airplane as just 1 whole airfoil.
Why? because from the very definition of an airfoil, it is any structure around which air flows in a manner that is useful in
flight. So everything about the aircraft is an airfoil!
I'm telling you this now because I want you to have a clear concept of what is really happening on the airplane in flight. So
now let us look into the topic of the interaction of the airfoil with the wind.
If a sphere is placed in a moderate flow of air, the air flows arond the sphere somewhat in the manner in my drawing. So t
imagine it clearly, let us think about the passing air as these lines, or should I say streamlines
As the speed of the flow of air increases, the streamline gradually stops following the contour of the sphere, this is mainly
because of the law of conservation of mass (what comes in must go out at the same time), the streamlines takes a shortcu
As we further increase the flow of air, the streamlines grow more far apart creating a wide space behind the sphere, and t
is called separation, the streamlines detaches itself from the sphere, and some of the air escapes into the void creating a
disturbance in the force, and we call this reaction force as drag.
Now it has been found by countless of Wind tunnel experiments that if the sphere is made in this manner, the streamline
however fast the airflow is the streamlines would still follow the contour of the object.
So think about the fish, many fish are thus obviously streamlined maybe simply because of natural selection or because th
needed to escape quickly.
Now that is the job of aeronautical engineers, almost every part of the aircraft must be streamlined so that nothing would
produce drag.
So of all the parts of the aircraft which is the most airfoil looking part?
The wing, it is definitely obvious as to why the wing must have the complete airfoil shape, there's got to be no compromis
Mainly because the sole purpose of the wing is to produce lift! The wing's shape must produce lift with the least amount
drag generated.
The lift in the wing is mainly produced by either the curvature, or the angle of attack.
So how is the wing actually making lift, now I want you to imagine a Waterskiing person, how does the water skii manage
carry that person above the water this is what happens.
The lift in the wing is mainly produced by either the curvature, or the angle of attack.
Having this in mind let us move forward to the next part of our lesson which is Airfoil Parts and Nomenclature
There are various types of airfoils but we have atleast 3 common types and these are the
Symmetrical Airfoil
Unsymmetrical Airfoil
Symmetrical Airfoil
Unsymmetrical Airfoil
Now if we look at the airplane at a side view we will notice that there is an angle between the chord line and the longitud
axis of the airplane and that is called angle of incidence
By the way when we study airfoils it makes no difference whether the plane or airfoil is flying through stationary air or the
plane is stationary and air flows past it. What matters is the direction of the air relative to the plane or airfoil. Therefore
whenever we think of airfoil it doesn't matter if the airplane is moving forward, or the wind is blowing over the airplane, i
still the same wind. That's the very definition of Relative Wind.
And the angle between the chord of an airfoil section and the direction of the relative wind is called angle of attack.
So then we have defined as how the AOA influences lift, let us now look into the the second main influencer of lift and tha
Camber, or the curvature of that wing, how does it influence lift?
In Summary...
Assignment..
So today let us begin with imagining an airfoil, surrounded by air molecules. We all know that everything around us has m
and everything that has mass is being pulled down by gravity. As a result, this airfoil is experiencing the force of gravity of
air molecules or simply say the weight of the air molecules around it. This airfoil experiences forces hitting on it on all
directions and in all areas, it is being compressed or crushed by these forces.
In this regard this airfoil is experiencing pressure. What is the very definition of pressure again? (Let the class answer)
Exactly. But since this airfoil isn't moving through the air, or that the air around this airfoil isn't moving, this type of pressu
is what we call static pressure. And static pressure is solely based on the altitude of which we are at, this static pressure is
based on pressure altitude.
As we move the airfoil forward, by newton's 3rd law the reaction to this rearward movement of air is what we call thrust.
how is lift generated here on our airfoil? That is the underlying question here.
To answer that, let us go back to 1700, and revisit the life of a mathematician famous for his work on Fluid Dynamics, a
person named Daniel Bernoulli. Now what Bernoulli realized in 1738 is that the pressure of a fluid flowing through a tube
decreases as velocity increases. So this is how he realized that.
Draw something
At the constrictions, the velocity of the fluid speeds up, and the pressure on that region decreases. The pressure that we
talking about here is the static pressure. It is actually because there are only a few air molecules that would hit the surfac
the tube as they are being pushed away quickly towards the exit, all the other air molecules have been converted to dyna
pressure as they are being hurled towards the exit.
So in the first part of our stream tube, our static pressure is 101325 N/m2, now since the fluid is flowing, it has a velocity
let's say 52m/s at sea level our density is 1.225 kg/m3
So in the first part of our stream tube, the Total pressure is 102981 N/m2
Now in the part where there is a restriction,
We know that there is a decrease in static pressure, and an increase in velocity, now see what happens with our total
pressure.
Say for example at this point the velocity increases to 104 m/s and that the static pressure decreases to 96357 N/m2
It is still the same! Now this is what i'm saying, even though niincrease ang velocity sa fluid, pero ang total pressure na
naexperience sa tube will always be the same throughout the tube, except that they are only being converted to different
forms of energy. Ngano mani sir? It is because our world is simply obeying 2 fundamental laws which is the First Law of
Thermodynamics called Law of Conservation of Energy and the Law of Conservation of Mass.
But enough about that, let us go back to our airfoil so the reason I tried to explain that is because, the whole bernoulli's
principle is acting on our airfoil. Over the top of the airfoil, as the airfoil flies through the air, the air molecules speeds up
order to catch up witht the lower half of the airfoil thus reducing the static pressure at that part, contrary to the bottom p
yes although there is still a decrease of static pressure since this part of the airfoil isn't perfectly flat, but the reduction in
static pressure over the top part is greater than the lower part, thus creating a pressure differential in the airfoil. So if mas
dako ang pressure sa ubos compare sa taas, asa man padulong atong airfoil?
There's another thing that contributes to lift, now as the air flows through our airfoil, diba mufollow man sila sa contour s
atong airfoil, therefore since ang atong airfoil kai ingun ani ug form, air is forced rush downwards, as a result or as a reacti
to this donward rushing of air, we have also created lift.
Now this lift force isn't felt at only one point of our airfoil, it takes effect on all areas of our airfoil, Lift acts like pressure to
airfoil, the point at which all these pressure acts what we call Center of Pressure. Now kini si center of pressure importan
kaayo ni sya kay silbi mao ni syay isa sa muhatag ug balance sa ato pag fly.
So this is where it gets more interesting class, can anyone remember the very definition of angle of attack? Okay right, we
know that if change nako ang angle of attack sa ako airfoil, muincrease si lift?
The whole concept works like bernoulli's principle, so if mao ni sya si airfoil the more ta muincrease ug angle of attack, th
more marestricted ang top portion sa ato airfoil the more muincrease si dynamic pressure, the more mudecrease si static
pressure, therefore more lift. So we can say sir ato nalang iraise ug maayo ang atong AOA para mutaas jud ato lift, kai the
more taas ang atong angle of attack like say greater than 16 degrees, there will be lesser air makasulod sa top portion and
that air forces itself sa top portion sa ato airfoil, maturbulent nana sya unya museparate nana sya sa ato airfoil thus creati
lesser dynamic pressure, and therefore mas dako nag static pressure above the wing, wala nay lift ma generate, and this
phenomenon is what we call stall, and the angle of attack before the stall is called critical angle of attack.
But there is another consequence, remember center of pressure, it is where lift acts on the airfoil, as you increase the ang
of attack, the center of pressure moves from the trailing edge towards the leading edge, now as we increase our angle of
attack towards the critical angle of attack, it reaches its peak, and then the CP drastically moves back towards the leading
edge and stays there forcing your airfoil to point at a nose dive direction during the stall.
Draw CP vs AOA
Day 3
Aerodynamic Force Derivation
-4 forces acting in flight, one is weight brought about by the force of gravity affecting the aircraft's mass, second we have
brought about by the engine, and the other 2 are what we call aerodynamic forces, and these are lift and drag. Lift and D
It has been noted by countless of Wind tunnel experiments that 7 factors affecting aerodynamic forces
and these are:
>Airstream Velocity
>Air Density
>Shape or Profile of the Surface
>Angle of Attack
>Surface Area
>Condition of the surface
>Compressibility Effects
since Lift is an Aerodynamic force it follows that lift is also equal to the original equation.
Now most of the time guys our aircraft will fly in a straight and level flight, which means si all forces kay balanced, now sin
jud na ang fact kay it's impossible na pirmi rata take off or pirmi rata descent, so the true goal of our lift is to have enough
support weight and let inertia just do its thing diba? So most of the time si Lift force constant rajud sya.
since Lift is an Aerodynamic force it follows that lift is also equal to the original equation.
Now most of the time guys our aircraft will fly in a straight and level flight, which means si all forces kay balanced, now sin
jud na ang fact kay it's impossible na pirmi rata take off or pirmi rata descent, so the true goal of our lift is to have enough
support weight and let inertia just do its thing diba? So most of the time si Lift force constant rajud sya.
So let us relate these truths sa atong lift equation, going back what happens if one of these factors change? like sa for exa
density. Now this density right here is the density of air molecules at a certain altitude. Now say for example if we fly or if
to cruise at 40, 000 ft how do we maintain a constant Lift if air density decreases?
At 40,000 ft ang value sa density kay 1/4 nalang sa sea level density. So the only thing we can adjust here is the velocity
L = 3000 Pa, density 1.225 kg/m3, Cl = 0.15 and S = 50 m2, so at sea level V = 25.555
if we want to cruise at 40,000 ft and maintain the same lift, see what happens.
L = 3000 Pa, density = 0.30625, CL = 0.15 and S = 50 m2, so at 40, 000 ft V = 51.11
So ang relation diay is that if we want to have a constant lift force at when cruising from one altitude to the other, it is ver
important to change the velocity of our aircraft accordingly.
There is one other important relationship that the Lift formula describes.
If we are flying at a constant altitude, and we want to maintaing that altitude, meaning si lift must be maintained. But we
let's say doubled our speed, how do we maintain a constant lift?
So as speed is changed in this situation, in order for us to maintain lift and maintain altitude, AOA must be adjusted to kee
constant.
With all these in mind, let's do a quick seat work to see how you guys are understanding the lesson.
Day 4
Day 5
9:45 to 10:45am - Special Quiz for those who weren't able to take the exams.
10:45 to 11:45am - Explaining of answers and solution
Types of Airspeed
Assignment
Research:
-Wing Geometry
-Wing Aspect Ratio formulas
-Finite vs Infinite Wing
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Day 1
Introduction
Tracing an Aircraft
Homework:
On short bond paper, list all basic CAD commands and its
respective functions.
Day 2
Day 1
Introduce myself to the class
Grading System.
10% Attendance
20% Class Participation - Recitations, Reportings, Seatworks
30% Quizzes
40% Exams
First Homework:
- Beginning: In these times that we live in it is a clear fact that anything heavier than air can fly. We have metallic
tubes flying around and about the sky above us. But exactly a hundred and five years ago humans had nothing but this
rooted instinct imprinted in each and every one of us, curiosity. Humans back then never had the chance to take into
the skies and fly like the birds, but our curiosity pushed us further, destroying the boundaries of human flight.
If we look at the timeline of aviation history, (source wikipedia) it is amazing to note that the study or the desire to fly
traces back to 1700BC, I'm pretty sure you're familiar with the story of Icarus and Daedalus, who in summary, were able
to fly using wings made from feather and wax.
Imprisoned on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, Daedalus is said to have made wings fastened with wax.
With these wings, they both escaped by flying through the air. However, Icarus, against his father's warnings, flew too
close to the sun; the wax melted, and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.
Daedalus, being Icarus' father while they were in flight warns Icarus to neither fly too low nor too high, so the sea's
dampness would not clog his wings nor the sun's heat melt them.
All early thinking of human flight centered on the imitation of birds. Various unsung ancient and medieval
people fashioned wings and met with sometimes disastrous and always unsuccessful consequences in leaping
from towers or roofs, flapping vigorously.
In time, the idea of strapping a pair of wings to arms fell out of favor. It was replaced by the concept of wings
flapped up and down by various mechanical mechanisms, powered by some type of human arm, leg, or body
movement.
These machines are called ornithopters. Recent historical research has uncovered that Leonardo da Vinci
himself was possessed by the idea of human flight and that he designed vast numbers of ornithopters toward
the end of the fifteenth century. In his surviving manuscripts, over 35,000 words and 500 sketches deal with
flight.
It is not known whether da Vinci ever built or tested any of his designs. However, human-powered flight by
flapping wings was always doomed to failure. In this sense, da Vinci's efforts did not make important
contributions to the technical advancement of flight.
Human efforts to fly literally got off the ground on November 21, 1783, when a balloon carrying Pilatre de Rozier and
the Marquis d' Arlandes ascended into the air and drifted 5 miles across Paris.
So people were finally off the ground! Balloons. Made no real technical contributions to human heavier-than-air flight.
However, they served a major purpose in triggering the public's interest in flight through the air.
One notable study was of Sir George Cayley considered to be the father of Aeronautics, a British inventor who set forth
the concept of modern airplane as a fixed wing flying machine rather than a movable wing. He is noted for discovering
and identifying the forces which acts on a heavier than air flying vehicle, namely Lift, Drag and Thrust. Take note, he
discovered this only in 1799.
It was the first concept to include a fixed wing for generating lift, another separate mechanism for propulsion (Cayley
envisioned paddles), and a combined horizontal and vertical (cruciform) tail for stability.
Before this time, thoughts of mechanical flight had been oriented towards the flapping wings of ornithopters, where the
flapping motion was supposed to provide both lift and propulsion.
However, Cayley is responsible for breaking this unsuccessful line of thought; he separated the concept of lift from
propulsion and, in so doing, set into motion a century of aeronautical development that culminated in the Wright
and identifying the forces which acts on a heavier than air flying vehicle, namely Lift, Drag and Thrust. Take note, he
discovered this only in 1799.
It was the first concept to include a fixed wing for generating lift, another separate mechanism for propulsion (Cayley
envisioned paddles), and a combined horizontal and vertical (cruciform) tail for stability.
Before this time, thoughts of mechanical flight had been oriented towards the flapping wings of ornithopters, where the
flapping motion was supposed to provide both lift and propulsion.
However, Cayley is responsible for breaking this unsuccessful line of thought; he separated the concept of lift from
propulsion and, in so doing, set into motion a century of aeronautical development that culminated in the Wright
brothers' success in 1903. George Cayley is a giant in aeronautical history: he is the parent of modem aviation and is the
first true aeronautical engineer.
William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) was a contemporary of Cayley. In April 1843, he published in England a design for a
fixed-wing airplane powered by a steam engine driving two propellers. Called the aerial steam carriage.
Henson's design was a direct product of George Cayley's ideas and research in aeronautics. The aerial steam carriage
was never built, but the design, along with its widely published pictures, served to engrave George Cayley's fixed-wing
concept on the minds of virtually all subsequent workers. Thus, even though Cayley's published papers fell into
obscurity after his death, his major concepts were partly absorbed and perpetuated by following generations of
inventors, even though most of these inventors did not know the true source of the ideas
John Stringfellow, a friend of Henson, made several efforts to bring Henson's design to fruition. Stringfellow built several
small steam engines and attempted to power some model monoplanes off the ground. He was close, but unsuccessful
During this period, almost all other countries have developed their own airplanes based on the design of George
Cayley, it may have actually flown but only for a couple of seconds, they were not flying, they were only hopping.
-The airplane must sustain itself freely in a horizontal or rising flight path without loss of airspeed
-It must be influenced by any momentum build up before it left the ground (Airspeed must be increasing)
- The machine can be kept in satisfactory equilibrium, must have full controllability.
1848 Otto Lilienthal - The Glider Man: Used the concept of the George Cayley's fixed wing aircraft to make a glider, thus
furthering the development of flight controls, Otto Lilienthal used cambered airfoil shapes on the wing and incorporated
vertical and horizontal tails for stability.
On Sunday, August 9, 1896, Lilienthal was gliding from the Gollenberg hill near Stollen in Germany. It was a fine
summer's day. However, a temporary gust of wind brought Lilienthal's monoplane glider to a standstill; he stalled and
crashed to the ground. Only the wing was crumpled; the rest of the glider was undamaged. However, Lilienthal was
carried away with a broken spine. He died the next day in the Bergmann Clinic in Berlin. During the course of his life,
Lilienthal remarked several times that "sacrifices must be made." This epitaph is carved on his gravestone in Lichterfelde
cemetery.
During his time there were 2 school of thought, or philosophical ideas about aviation.
That is the Airmen vs the Chauffer, yes literally a chauffer meant driver but in your assignment what I was asking you to
do is to understand the difference between the 2 aviation philosophical ideas.
For the airmen they believed that flight can only be made possible when people we study about flying and how it
works. We have to have numerous experiments and understand how to control the aircraft once in flight.
But for the chauffer they believed that flying is simply just strapping an engine into your aircraft and once your aircraft
flies it's gonna be just like driving.
Came forth the nineteenth Century, where the industrial revolution came to play. During most of the nineteenth
century, powered flight was looked upon in a brute-force manner: build an engine strong enough to drive an airplane,
slap it on an airframe strong enough to withstand the forces and generate the lift, and presumably you could get into
the air.
Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French-born naturalized citizen who lived in Chicago. Chanute was a civil engineer who
but that's not the case...
Came forth the nineteenth Century, where the industrial revolution came to play. During most of the nineteenth
century, powered flight was looked upon in a brute-force manner: build an engine strong enough to drive an airplane,
slap it on an airframe strong enough to withstand the forces and generate the lift, and presumably you could get into
the air.
Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a French-born naturalized citizen who lived in Chicago. Chanute was a civil engineer who
became interested in mechanical flight about 1875. For the next 35 years, he collected, absorbed, and assimilated every
piece of aeronautical information he could find. This culminated in 1894 with the publishing of his book entitled
Progress in Flying Machines, a work that ranks with Lilienthal's Der Vogeljlug as one of the great classics in aeronautics.
There's another Pre-Wright Brother's Aeronautical Engineer, named Samuel Pierpont Langley, (1834-1906) tirelessly
designing and building a series of powered aircraft, which finally culminated in two attempted piloted flights, both in
1903, just weeks before the Wrights' success on December 17.He designed an aircraft fitted with an engine that can
produce 52.4 hp, he made a successful flight with a quarter scale model aircraft in the August of 1903, Encouraged by
this success, Langley stepped directly to the full-size airplane.
October 7, 1903, the airplane was ready for its first attempt. The launching was given wide advance publicity, and the
press was present to watch what might be the first successful powered flight in history, but it still failed, he tried again
and still failed.
Nine days after Langley's second failure, December 17 1903 the Wright Flyer 1 rose from the sands of Kill Devil Hills.
Flying as high as 852 ft and remaining in the air for 59 s
Moving forward exactly a 105 years later, it's amazing that we didnt follow the words of Daedalus, for once again he
said, But amazingly as human as we can be, we did not heed the words of Daedalus.
Neither fly too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog your wings nor the sun's heat melt them.
Instead, in our modern day, we made airplanes which can fly as close to the sun, and can fly low too close to the water.
We have seaplanes, we have spacecrafts and we have our regular airplanes flying around and about.
So the thing here is, flying was only made possible by only two human characteristics, and that is Curiosity
and Hard Headedness.
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Day 1
Introduce myself to the class
Grading System.
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Recitations, Reportings, Seatworks
30% Quizzes
40% Exams
First Homework:
What is Thermodynamics?
Why is Thermodynamics important.
Day 2
Introduction to Thermodynamics
All processes which occur in nature and daily life are guided by
Thermodynamic Laws.
Day 2
System:
The volume of what's inside the system under study is called control
volume
The allowable mass inside the control volume, is called control mass.
Now what separates the system and the surroundings is what we call as
boundary.
to understand this, I want you to picture out this warm tumbler of coffee,
now the system is the coffee, and the air is the surroundings, and the glass
is the boundary.
Also with our piston, so say for example our piston cylinder has fuel and
air mixture in it.
The system is the fuel and air mixture, the cylinder and the piston forms
the boundary, and outside it is the surroundings.
The behaviour of the system under study may be investigated from either
a microscopic or a macroscopic point of view
So the difference is that when we say microscopic, it states that the system
under study is in an atomic or subatomic levels.
It's like forest and trees, ba when you think about it. Macroscopic is the
whole forest, but Microscopic are studying the trees individually.
>Solid - In the solid phase the molecules are closely bound to one
another by molecular forces. A solid holds its shape and the volume of
a solid is fixed by the shape of the solid.
>Liquid - In the liquid phase the molecular forces are weaker than in
a solid. A liquid will take the shape of its container with a free surface in a
gravitational field. In microgravity, a liquid forms a ball inside a free
surface. Regardless of gravity, a liquid has a fixed volume.
>Gas - In the gas phase the molecular forces are very weak. A gas
fills its container, taking both the shape and the volume of the container.
Thermodynamics Properties
(2 general classes)
>Intensive: independent of mass, independent of the amount of
matter.
Examples: Boiling point, color, temperature, luster, hardness,
density, every property that has the word "specific" before it
>Extensive: dependent of mass, and the amount of matter.
Examples: Volume, Mass, Size, Weight and Length
Thermodynamic Processes:
Whenever one or more of the properties of a system change, we say
that a change in state has occurred. And for every change of state there is
what we call a thermodynamic process has occured. For example,
when one of the weights on the piston in Fig. 1.6 is removed, the
piston rises and a change in state occurs, for the pressure decreases and
the specific volume increases. The path of the succession of states
through which the system passes is called the process.
Day 3
Basic Principles, Concepts, and Definitions
The acceleration of an object depends directly upon the net force acting
Basic Principles, Concepts, and Definitions
The acceleration of an object depends directly upon the net force acting
upon the object, and inversely upon the mass of the object.
F = ma/k
Define Force:
Now it is by force that we are able to accelerate and object, Newton
realized this and was able to quantify what a force is, and to convert his
statement into a mathematical equation.
Force is in Newtons
Mass is in Kilograms
Acceleration is in m/s2
Force is in Pounds
Mass is in Slugs
Acceleration is in ft/s2
Day 1
Attendance
Grading System.
10% Attendance
20% Class Participation - Recitations, Reports, Homework
30% Quizzes
40% Exams
First Homework:
Day 1
Introduction
I am your instructor for CAD 218 - Computer Aided Drafting and I will
try my best to teach you what I know based on the knowledge I gained
from my TESDA certified AutoCAD training back in 2013.
Homework: