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Design Competitions:

AIAA Student Design Competition (Airport Adaptive Regional Jet)

Revolutionary Vehicles (NASA) - Electric propulsion, Personal Air Vehicles,

                               Unmanned Vehicles, Ultra Efficient Transports, ...

AHS Helicopter Design Competition (Mountain Rescue Helicopter)

FAA's Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's):

General Index

FAR   1 - Definitions and Abbreviations

FAR 23 - Normal, Utility, Acrobatic and Commuter Aircraft

FAR 25 - Transport Aircraft

FAR 27 - Normal Rotorcraft (7000 lbs or less, 9 Pax or less)

FAR 29 - Transport Rotorcraft

JAA's European Joint Aviation Regulations (JAR's):

General Index

JAR   1 - Definitions and Abbreviations

JAR 23 - Normal, Utility, Acrobatic and Commuter Aircraft

JAR 25 - Transport Aircraft

JAR 23 - Small Rotorcraft (3175 kgs or less, 9 Pax or less)

JAR 25 - Large Rotorcraft

Engine Manufacturers:

Agilis - 550lb to 1200lb thrust turbofans

GE Aircraft Engines - Turbine engines

Pratt & Whitney - Turbine engines

Rolls-Royce - Turbine engines

Snecma - Turbine engines

Teledyne-Continental - Piston aircraft engines

Textron-Lycoming - Piston aircraft engines

Williams International - Turbine engines

Airframe Manufacturers:

Airbus - Commercial  transports

AirTractor - Agricultural aircraft

Beach/Raytheon - General aviation, business, and commuter aircraft

Boeing - Commercial transports, large business jet, C-17, F-22, JSF

Bombardier - Turboprop and jet for business and commuter

Cessna - General aviation aircraft and business jets.

Cirrus - Composite experimental and general aviation aircraft

Eclipse Aviation - Personal/business jet

Embraer - Commuter turboprop and jets

Lookheed-Martin - F22, C-130, JSF, T-50 trainer

Mooney - General aviation aircraft

Pilatus - Turboprop business, utility, and training aircraft

Piper - General aviation aircraft

Safire Aircraft -  6 place, twin turbofan

SinoSwearingen - Business jets

 

KitPlanes - Lots of kit manufactures, look at the magazine advertisers index

Aircraft Tires

Michelin Aviation Tire

Goodyear Aviation Tires 

 

Other

AIAA Design Reference Library - Great source for lots of engine and other data.

Aircraft Design: Synthesis and Analysis - Aircraft design web site by Ilan Kroo at Stanford University

DARcorp - Jan Roskam's aircraft design company and textbook publisher

  

Copyright Tom Gally 2003
Contact: gallyt@erau.edu