From George Cayley’s time, the importance of aerodynamics for airplane design was well understood. However, it took a time (and some remarkable people) for the theoretical side of aerodynamics to catch up with progress in aviation and start providing reliable predictions, that would allow much faster design optimization…
As almost everybody knows, the Wright brothers carried out the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk. But there is much more depth to this history than meets the eye…
After George Cayley set up the fundamental concepts for flight, putting them into practice should have been a child’s play, and humans should be flying in no time. Or was it?
We at TechForSpace were lucky enough to have some of our questions answered by Pedro Duque, Spanish astronaut and ESA engineer. The topics range from the psychology of space flight to energy sources and space debris.