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Very cool, a blog dedicated to experimental aircraft design! Even cooler is that it's largely Linux-centric, written by a Nokia Maemo engineer!


Included below are coordinates for over 1550 airfoils (Version 2.0). The UIUC Airfoil Data Site gives some background on the database. The airfoils are listed alphabetically by the airfoil filename (which is usually close to the airfoil name).
Very good compendium of aircraft design resources.

From the page:
"Table of Contents
A. Aircraft Design Bibliographies
B. Control Power Requirements Bibliographies
C. A Summary of the X Series Aircraft
D. Key Aircraft Museums, with some Photo Collections, including Airshows
E. Software
F. Mail Order Aviation Book Sellers and Other Catalogs
G. Electronic Data Sources
H. Educational Projects for Students Pages"
Design theory for a wide variety of aircraft layouts, with a BASIC computer program for solving tandem wing geometry for stability.
AVL
Full featured aircraft design analysis software for Linux, GPL.

From the page: "AVL is a program for the aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircraft
of arbitrary configuration. It employs an extended vortex lattice model for
the lifting surfaces, together with a slender-body model for fuselages and nacelles.
General nonlinear flight states can be specified. The flight dynamic analysis
combines a full linearization of the aerodynamic model about any flight state,
together with specified mass properties. "