Viscous stresses in a gas

How viscous stresses in gases are caused by random molecular motion. This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including ...

Variable pitch quadrotors in the Aerospace Controls Lab

Trajectory generation and control for a variable pitch quadrotor helicopter developed at MIT AeroAstro's Aerospace Controls Lab. The variable-pitch propellers allow for more aggressive maneuvers and aerobatics than possible with typical fixed-pitch quadrotors. by Mark ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Tad Hirsch and Trevor Pagleni with Andrew Woods: Terminal Air

Terminal Air (Institute for Applied Autonomy and Trevor Paglen) with Andrew Woods Tad Hirsch (Institute for Applied Autonomy) and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen will present early research for their new project, Terminal Air, an interactive installation that ...

Rocket Science!

Ever want to know what it's like to be a rocket scientist? Learn some of the basics of rockets to impress your friends.

Personal Transportation System with Improved Plan Diagnosis

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MIT Sloan Experts: Systems engineering view of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Steven Eppinger, the General Motors LGO Professor of Management, discusses the systems engineering for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Mark Jenks, Vice President of Development, 787 Program, Boeing Commercial ...

"Boeing's 787 and the Challenges of Complex Global Systems" is a presentation given by Mark Jenks, Vice President of Development, 787 Program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the MIT System Design and Management's 2010 Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges ...

Lift generation, flow turning, and separation

This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...

Laminar boundary layer order of magnitude analysis

This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, ...

Guiding robot planes with hand gestures

Aircraft-carrier crew use standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions, researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable them to follow these gestures.

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Fast and Accurate Knife-Edge Maneuvers for Autonomous Aircraft

Researchers in MIT's Robot Locomotion Group have built a computer-controlled aircraft that flies accurately enough to navigate safely through a gap smaller than its wingspan.