Is there any plane or aicraft designer here ?

I dont talk about this a lot but I have the passion of plane and aircraft designing. Is there any other people like me here ?

>Deafening silence<

I like drawing up my own air and space craft and analyzing existing ones. But it's not like I have a degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Im with this /\ guy. I like to have a look and I tried it once, but I dont have a degree, nor the ability to put down on paper what Ive got in my head.

I just know how to bring down a aeroplane..

I tried, but the study was waaay to difficult for me, that, combined with 37 hours of school. (read: I'm a lazy bastard ). After 5 months I quit, the only course I enjoyed was designing.
Ask me anything about the Fokker-50/60, I had to make a lot of technical drawings of specific parts, like the undercarriage.
It's was fun to do, but the majority of the courses were just too difficult for me, I didn't do much homework (never did, never will) so I quickly ended up with a month behind scedual.

I'm an aerospace engineer, but I have not worked in aircraft design since graduating college.

I had a concept to propose to someone interested about designing and patenting a private family 4 places air-vehicle. The particularity of this concept is that it's a plane 100% ecologic, working with renewable energies. Easy to drive and handle. Not so expensive to build in serie.

Maybe the XXIth century flying car...

If someone on ATS is interested...

[Edited on 11-9-2003 by Nans DESMICHELS]

First things first: what sort of powerplant are you into? I'm not so hot on aerodynamics - I'm more into avionics, software, powerplants, structure, materials, et cetera.

yeah im into aircraft designing too e-mail me if you have questions.

Im available anytime you have Questions!

Run Lola, run! I loved that movie.

Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
I dont talk about this a lot but I have the passion of plane and aircraft designing. Is there any other people like me here ?

Errr yea kidding? I loooooooove it with a passion.
I have dreams at night about these cool vehicles. I fantasize about zipping around in my own. I even drew pictures of it and how it's fuel system would work. That's as far as I got. And sorry, it has nothing to do with airplanes. I hope you do find the right people too though!

We all should do a research project on ATS on designing a UAV or something.....

That sounds like a good idea. I was personally thinking of buying a B-2 model and testing it in a wind tunnel (better make some friends over at an Aeronautical Engineering faculty). There are some aerodynamic issues I wanna check out with it.

I am really interested in aircrafts. I have a lot of my own designs.