For aircraft conceptual design
fpaconcept is python-based calculator of performance for human powered aircraft (hpa). Objective of these scripts is to conduct conceputual design of human powered aircraft. friends of mine and I are tring to design and build our human powered aircraft. making good design and conducting optimization of hpa is first objective.
Software shown below are required to run this script.
- Python 2.5 or higher of 2.x
- Scipy
- Numpy
- Matplotlib
Data shown below are required to run and calculate this script.
- Aerodynamics data for two dimensional airfoil
- Aircraft planform data