I'm not sure how many of you engineer types are already aware of this, but...
We use Matlab (a computer mathematical analysis program) at work for some of the products we sell, and I am a little bit familiar with it due to having to provide support for these products. Because I am the technical contact for our company with regards to Matlab I receive their newsletters. These newsletters often have interesting bits of news in them related to aerospace. A few months ago there was an article about the design, construction, and testing of a new civilian tilt-rotor aircraft targeted at the offshore oil platform market. This month's article concerns a new toolbox they offer that is specifically for "flight vehicle design", specifically the flight characteristics of a new light airplane. The article also links to a published US Air Force data compendium tool. http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/digest/2007/jan/flightsim.html?s_cid=MLD0107na2TA2&s_v1=42005|1-E28H5 http://www.va.afrl.af.mil/org/VAC/VACA/vaca_index.html This is all well over my head, but I think at least a few of you guys here are working at this level, and I am offering it for your interest if you are not already aware of it. If nobody is interested in this, I won't hear any more about it and won't bother sending any more updates on this topic. -- Regards, RonB
