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Focus Course

Aeronautical Engineering (LIV/120/FOCUS)

Venue: Department of Engineering

Date: Sunday 6th July - Thursday 10th July

 

 

Flight simulator was flown by all

the students during the week

Advertised Course content:

Headstart 2003 at Liverpool was organised around the multi-disciplinary theme of aerospace engineering and was led by the Aerospace Group. This Group is currently working with industry and the civil and military authorities on a variety of projects including tilt rotor aircraft and display systems for flight in poor visibility. 

 

Course subjects included:

  • Airframe structures and materials

  • Flight technologies

  • Simulation and control

  • Design, manufacture and maintenance issues for aircraft

During the programme, students worked in small teams solving specific aerospace problems. Extensive computing computing facilities were used, and all the students flew the Bibby Flight Simulator in both the 1903 Wright flyer and the "Super Grob"

Theme: The Wright Brothers

The centenary period of the Wright Brothers' activities is upon us and at the University of Liverpool, the Wright Brothers' engineering achievements and their aircraft are being revived. The Wright Flyer was first flown on Dec 17th 1903, marking the first successful powered flight. However, the aircraft displayed a number of deficiencies that took the Wright Brothers 2 years to fix. The Wright Brothers project at Liverpool uses modern technologies and theories developed in the 100 years since the Wright Brothers to display the flight characteristics of the aircraft and to identify the critical success factors of the Wright Brothers' research.

In this project the 1903 aircraft that the Wright Brothers developed is to be upgraded to produce a vehicle which can be used as a basic observation platform. In order to do this, the students will carry out a number of research activities to produce an aircraft with improved performance that will be evaluated using the flight simulator.

The programme consisted of the following items:

 

First Night Team Building

Research Activities

Simulator Sessions

Full Programme

DUKW Tour

Last Day Presentations

 

 

 

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