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Wow, the user friendliness and speed of this app is just amazing. A long way in ease and useability from the open source tool chain I...

Missiles and Rockets was a magazine that ran from the mid 1950's to the mid 1960's at the height of the Space Race. All the issue...

I haven't heard of Engineering Sketch Pad (source code as part of OpenMDAO , and here ) before, but this is yet another NASA sponsored...

I recently bought my first personal 3D printer. I have been involved in DIY and hobbyist 3D printing for many years through the Dayton Diod...

I enjoy Shipulski on Design for the short articles on innovation. They are generally not technical at all. I like to think of most of the...

It has never been easier to go from a design in your head to parts in your hand. The barriers to entry are low on the front end. There are...

This report ( pdf ) from the National academies on reliability growth is interesting. There's a lot of good stuff on design for relia...

This paper is full of great guidance for planning a campaign of experimentation, or assessing the sufficiency of a plan that already exists...

Yesterday's AIAA Daily Launch had a great round-up of some recent UAV news: Wall Street Journal (6/27, Nicas, Subscription Publication...

SpaceX completes Super Draco Qual From the press release: The SuperDraco engine chamber is manufactured using state-of-the-art direct me...

In the BAA for the DARPA XS-1 program there is a presentation by Jess Sponable about lessons learned from previous flight demonstration pr...

RAND has a recent report out examining the historical performance of joint (i.e. multi-service) aircraft development programs. Their key...

Topologically Optimized Bracket by KMWE + TU Delft The winners for the GrabCAD GE Bracket Design challenge have been manufactured and te...

NASA SP-2001-4525 AvWeek has a nice marketing piece for Lockheed-Martin's Mach 6 ISR/strike concept based on Blackswift that they...

An alternative title for this GAO report might be, "Defense Acquisitions: Constantly Reforming." We've been "reforming...

* permanent page with updates: Open Source Aeronautical Engineering Tools * I was reading through some of the papers and cites related to ...

I wrote previously about some neat entries in the GE Engine Bracket Challenge on GrabCAD that used topology optimization. As reported by ...

Here are pdfs for 9 volumes of ProtoLabs Design tips. They do low volume injection molding and rapid three-axis CNC machining . Volume ...

I found this article, Why is the Pentagon Dragging Its Feet on 3D Printing , by way of Small Wars Journal . It has some interesting informa...

I wrote a bit previously about the midwest pilot to increase penetration of high performance computing and simulation into the small and m...