Digging through some old stuff

"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake) 04/20/2015 at 17:51 • Filed to: None

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My work PC is occupied doing a thing so I was flipping through old pictures on my Facebook and stumbled on my senior design project, thought Oppo might enjoy it

It’s called Aethos, it’s an unmanned aircraft designed to launch a small satellite into orbit. The general design was inspired by the NASA AD-1 to use an oblique swing wing for efficient supersonic flight. The whole wing swings like a scissor to enable the plane to reach Mach 2. When the wing is unswept it produces a lift to drag ratio of 12 to 1.

If I remember correctly it’s about 40ft wide and 40ft long. Here it is next to an f15 and an A6

ttyymmnn > Jayhawk Jake 04/20/2015 at 17:57

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Why did you put the engines on the front?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 04/20/2015 at 17:58

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Aerospace engineers want to know!

Biased Plies > Jayhawk Jake 04/20/2015 at 17:59

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Pfft, this could have been done by a 5 year old playing with Catia.

-Denver, probably

Jcarr > Biased Plies 04/20/2015 at 18:02

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Come on man. Not necessary.

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 04/20/2015 at 18:03

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How many engineering questions are answered, “Because it looks cool that way.”

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 04/20/2015 at 18:04

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Depends. Do they work for a Soviet design studio?

Your boy, BJR > ttyymmnn 04/20/2015 at 18:06

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FWD

ttyymmnn > Your boy, BJR 04/20/2015 at 18:07

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But I thought Oppo hated FWD.

Jayhawk Jake > ttyymmnn 04/20/2015 at 18:11

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Balance. It’s a light plane with a really heavy missile in the middle

Also because it’s been done (sorta)

I ran into serious problems with landing gear placement though. It was not the best idea, but it's unique!

ttyymmnn > Jayhawk Jake 04/20/2015 at 18:13

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And we remember how successful the XB-51 was. :D I figured there was a good reason.

MrDakka > Jayhawk Jake 04/20/2015 at 18:28

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What was the supersonic sweep angle to be?

MrDakka > For Sweden 04/20/2015 at 18:31

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Ahem "design bureaus". Studio reeks of Western bourgeois decadence

MrDakka > Biased Plies 04/20/2015 at 18:33

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Real engineers use creo :)

Jayhawk Jake > MrDakka 04/20/2015 at 18:39

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60 degrees IIRC. It looked very similar to the AD1

Jayhawk Jake > Biased Plies 04/20/2015 at 19:03

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This was actually done in NX

Biased Plies > Jayhawk Jake 04/20/2015 at 23:11

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Heh, I thought it might be, Catia’s comparatively low res looking graphics (at least for V5 like I’m used to) worked better for the joke though.

Biased Plies > Jcarr 04/20/2015 at 23:12

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Necessary? Maybe not. Funny? Yup. Worth it? Definitely.

Jcarr > Biased Plies 04/20/2015 at 23:42

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Gonna double down on being a dick, huh? Alright.

Biased Plies > Jcarr 04/21/2015 at 13:53

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Meh, if you want to hang out on the internet (or, hell, have any hope of succeeding in life), you can’t be so thin-skinned that a little jab like this upsets you greatly. I would hope and do think that Denver can take a joke.

Racescort666 > Jayhawk Jake 04/25/2015 at 14:06

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Was it just a mother ship or a full blown space plane? I’m assuming air launched rocket if mother ship?

Jayhawk Jake > Racescort666 04/25/2015 at 14:59

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Mothership. There’s a big bomb bay in the middle that holds a rocket