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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:
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Airframe structures and materials
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Flight technologies
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Simulation and control
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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: