Engineers read codes; look at FAR 25 and AC-25A,...if you want to be realsitic,...
if you plan for an novel planform...
Theory of wing sections by Ira Abbott and Vandoenhoff,...will help you to predict cetain key airfoil characteristics them model it [CATIA/MATHCAD/ auto CAD.........]....I think after ONE -X-plane you and your professor will be actually ready for retirement
'cuz if you've projected to the 'zeta plane' once you've projected thereto a million and one times already
PS start imagining first
