Thursday, January 16, 2014

Innovation In Aeronautics (Part 1)

Innovation in all disciplines is necessary and particularly advancement in aerospace design and engineering is essential to overcome many real time challenges. Basically innovating novel technologies in any fields is to move our society forward. Recently, much more significant interest has been carried out in conducting fundamental, cutting-edge research into new aircraft technologies, as well as systems-level research into the integration of new operations concepts and technologies by employing new techniques and novel algorithms in solving many real world problems especially in the field of aeronautics. It is well known that, aeronautics is the science or art deals with the study / investigation, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmospheric level. It is pertinent to pin point out that aeronautical science is a branch of dynamics called aerodynamics, which deals with the motion of air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion, such as an aircraft. Aviation, Aeronautical science and Aeronautical engineering are the three, major branches of aeronautics. Aviation means heavier-than-air flight, but nowadays it includes flying in balloons and airships, Aeronautical science discusses about the practical theory of aeronautics and aviation, including operations, navigation, air safety and human factors.

Aeronautical engineering covers the design and construction of aircraft, including how they are powered, how they are employed effectively and how they are controlled for safe operation. Aeronautical engineering is the study of how things fly in the Earth's atmosphere and the application of that knowledge to design and build aircraft and missiles etc. Aeronautical engineering includes an extremely wide range of fields, including the research and development, testing, assembly, and maintenance of aircraft and missiles and their parts. Moreover it includes the effect that aircraft have on the surrounding environment, the potential dangers of specific aircraft, and their fuel and systems efficiency. Aeronautical engineering emphasize on flight within the Earth's atmosphere, while astronautical engineering focuses on the research of space flight and the design of spacecraft and satellites. This includes research on best launching spacecraft and the effects the surrounding environment has on them, as well as developing suitable systems to control spacecraft and designing materials that can withstand space flight. However, a major part plays in case of aeronautical engineering is aerodynamics, (the science of passage through the air) which deals with the motion of air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion, such as an aircraft. The study of aerodynamics falls widely into three fields such as incompressible flow occurs where the air simply moves to avoid objects, typically at subsonic speeds below that of sound, compressible flow occurs where shock waves appear at points where the air becomes compressed, typically at speeds above and transonic flow occurs in the intermediate speed range around, where the airflow over an object may be locally subsonic at one point and locally supersonic at another.

This Laversab Aviation article will be continued. Aeronautics is an incredibly sophisticated discipline. For one to become well-versed in the discipline, it takes the understanding of hundreds of sophisticated concepts; some of them include: pitot static test equipment, air data test sets, RVSM test equipment.