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Male


Location

Thousand Oaks, CA


About Me:

Aerospace Engineer - Flight Test, Conceptual/Preliminary Design and Program Managment I have built and flown R/C aircraft all my life. My passion is designing new and unique aircraft configurations to meet specific missions.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Designing and Flying UAVs for personal/research use. Research new configurations with the help from an autopilot w/ datalogging capability. Development of a flexible/configurable control law module for generic configurations .


Activity Feed

Dave Faulkner commented on Martin Burston's blog post Experimental Airframe - Goldschmied Pusher
"Actually this paper shows a cutaway of inlet lip and fan exhaust configuration that Goldschmied used in a windtunnel model to validate the drag reduction and resulting power reduction on the fan unit.  
AIAA-84-2163
On the Aerodynamic Optimization…"
Dec 1, 2012
Dave Faulkner commented on Martin Burston's blog post Experimental Airframe - Goldschmied Pusher
"This is very interesting.  I read the following papers on the theory listed below a few years back.  

Integrated Hull Design, Boundary-Layer Control, and
Propulsion of Submerged Bodies
F. R. GOLDSCHMIED*
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah…"
Dec 1, 2012