The Aerospace Engineering Podcast Highlights New Breed of Sports Airplanes
AnalySwift is pleased to be partnering with the Aerospace Engineering Podcast, where Rainer Groh highlights exciting developments in aerospace engineering. More than 15,000 people visited the Aerospace Engineering Blog each month to learn something new about aerospace engineering. The most recent episode, sponsored by AnalySwift, discusses a sport aircraft startup working to bring new engineering and design thinking to the world of sport airplanes.
Looking at the sport aircraft market, it is easy to notice that aircraft designs haven’t evolved appreciably over the last couple of decades. This is probably for a good reason given that the laws of flying are obviously unchanged, and the design principles that worked in the past, are still valid today. But what is particularly fascinating is the manner in which this startup is using proven aerospace technologies and recombining them in novel ways to design an entirely modern aircraft. The result is an airplane that does not feature all of the most recent bells and whistles—just for the sake of using cutting-edge technology—but instead features a pragmatic design where each component has been carefully chosen to serve the company’s vision of maximising the pilot experience. As you will hear in this episode, one of the best examples of this is the choice of a reinforced spaceframe design over an arguably lighter monocoque design. This episode discusses:
- the origins of the startup
- their particular design philosophy
- some of the key design choices they have made
- and the near future of the company
