Aerospace Design Workstations

随着大量计算机程序的获得，航空航天设计的教学已经发生了根本性的变化，这加快了以前乏味的计算工作的速度。因此，可以包括空气动力学结构分析的更多方面。每个设计团队现在还建造和测试自己的风洞模型。同时，不再教授的绘图技能必须被计算机图形学取代，以便在迭代设计过程中直观地显示正在研究和修改的构型。湿润面积的准确估计和面板方法的应用也需要良好的数值形式的几何数据。小型实验室、专用计算机与设计中使用的工作站联网，将极大地方便风洞数据的记录和处理。业界将提供一个经过验证的设计软件包，具有极大的灵活性。新的资源将提供执行这项计划所需的工作站。

Instruction in aerospace design has changed radically with the acquisition of numerous computer programs which speed up the formerly tedious computational work involved. As a result, many more aspects of aerodynamics structural analysis can be included. Each design team now also constructs and tests its own wind tunnel model. At the same time drafting skills, which are no longer taught, must by replaced by computer graphics in order to give a current visual display of the configuration being studied and modified in the iterative design process. Accurate estimation of wetted areas and applications of panel methods also require good geometrical data in numerical form. The recording and manipulation of the wind tunnel data will be greatly facilitated by small-laboratory, dedicated-computer networked to the work stations used in design. Industry will provide a proven design software package of great flexibility. The new resources will provide the work-stations necessary to implement this plan.