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Tag: aerodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1990: Max Munk

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 29, 2021 · Episode: 1990 Max Munk, aerodynamics, and aimful thinking. Today, Max Munk and aimful thinking.

Tags aerodynamics aimful thinking airfoil design Fermat’s Last Theorem Ludwig Prandtl Max Eckert Max Munk naca Operation Paperclip

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3206: Australia Wins The America’s Cup

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on March 28, 2019 · Episode: 3206 Australia Wins The America’s Cup. Today, they came from the land down under.

Tags aerodynamics Australia boats hydrodynamics keel racing sailing sails wings yachts

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1650: Inherent Stability in 1916

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 13, 2019 · Episode: 1650 Learning about the stability of aeroplanes in 1916. Today, we worry about airplane stability in 1916.  

Tags aerodynamics airplane design Eliot engineering flight flying WW-I

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 5, 2017 · Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers. Today, we test airplane propellers, 12 years before the Wright brothers flew.

Tags aerodynamics balloons flight invention machine gun maxim

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1343: Forgotten Lore

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 15, 2017 · Episode: 1343 Forgotten lore: How much should we trouble to remember. Today, the past fades away.

Tags aerodynamics education flight Poe The Raven Whitehead

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1287: Faster Than Sound

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 6, 2017 · Episode: 1287 Transonic flight: piercing the sound barrier. Today, the sound barrier.

Tags aerodynamics Bell X-1 fluid mechanics Mach number supersonic flow Tricomi Vincenti Yeager

Engines Podcast

Engiines of Our Ingenuity 1142: Legend and Flight

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on April 4, 2016 · Episode: 1142 The accumulation of empirical data in the legends of flight Today, old stories turn from legend into experimental development.

Tags aerodynamics brothers daedalus eilmer firman firnas icarus malmesbury of william wright

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1129: Alphonse Penaud

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on March 16, 2016 · Episode: 1129 In which Alphonse Penaud invents the model airplane Today, a very young man teaches us to fly, after all.

Tags aerodynamics brothers depression dyslexia flight giffard helicopter psychology Suicide wright

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