Personal Transportation System with Improved Plan Diagnosis

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

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.

Aircraft Design - Decreasing Environmental Impact

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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, ...

Concept Question: Strain on a fluid element

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, ...

Concept Question: Terms of Navier-Stokes Equations

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, ...

Concept Question: Terms of Navier-Stokes Equations (another example)

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, ...

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 ...

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors

New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.

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.