Need help with my project
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How about modifications for an engine that runs of jet fuel? As far as I know, not really done on the PA-28 yet.
Oh yes, by the way I'm a fellow aeronautical engineering student and a PPL holder.
Oh yes, by the way I'm a fellow aeronautical engineering student and a PPL holder.
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I think im just the guy you need to speak with. for my final year project, i manufactured a NACA 4412 aerofoil using the usual vertical milling machine and various different tools. also stook a 12mm shaft through it so it fits like a condom in the wind tunnel section. 
I then tested my NACA 4412 aerofoil, usual things like, lift at various angles of attack, stagnation point, transition point, stall. If you use a good wind tunnel, you can get it to plot you a graph with various information. I'd recommend you speak to your lab technician.
Once i got all the information, I then looked for a different NACA profile with similar wind tunnel test results and wrote a thesis on the differences. Obviously you'd have different lift characteristics, stall, etc etc etc.
Use your imagination, I know I did and enjoyed the project thoroughly.
Message me if you need any further advice.
Hayder.
I then tested my NACA 4412 aerofoil, usual things like, lift at various angles of attack, stagnation point, transition point, stall. If you use a good wind tunnel, you can get it to plot you a graph with various information. I'd recommend you speak to your lab technician.
Once i got all the information, I then looked for a different NACA profile with similar wind tunnel test results and wrote a thesis on the differences. Obviously you'd have different lift characteristics, stall, etc etc etc.
Use your imagination, I know I did and enjoyed the project thoroughly.
Message me if you need any further advice.
Hayder.
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Interesting!
If you are not clued up on aerodynamics to the degree that you have the software available to test such models, maybe the following could be of interest:
For my final year project (Which I handed in last week at 15k words) I looked into fuel contamination by water in general aviation. (Specifically the Piper Tomahawk PA-38)
As you know, during the walk around before flight checklist you are required to take a sample of fuel to look for any possible contamination, a major factor being any water contamination.
This check has been overlooked before leading to accidents (After looking at many AAIB and NTSB reports it happens more than you would think
!)
As a further aid to the pilot, I proposed a system where a water in fuel sensor was fitted to the existing fuel system to give the pilot a real time read out of any water contamination in the aircrafts fuel supply in parts per million.
This would aid the pilot to decide if it was safe to fly or not (After the initial visual fuel drain procedure has been done.)
If this may be of any interest to you as a project I can forward to you useful information that would be able to help you!
Good luck with the project!
Martyn.
If you are not clued up on aerodynamics to the degree that you have the software available to test such models, maybe the following could be of interest:
For my final year project (Which I handed in last week at 15k words) I looked into fuel contamination by water in general aviation. (Specifically the Piper Tomahawk PA-38)
As you know, during the walk around before flight checklist you are required to take a sample of fuel to look for any possible contamination, a major factor being any water contamination.
This check has been overlooked before leading to accidents (After looking at many AAIB and NTSB reports it happens more than you would think
!)As a further aid to the pilot, I proposed a system where a water in fuel sensor was fitted to the existing fuel system to give the pilot a real time read out of any water contamination in the aircrafts fuel supply in parts per million.
This would aid the pilot to decide if it was safe to fly or not (After the initial visual fuel drain procedure has been done.)
If this may be of any interest to you as a project I can forward to you useful information that would be able to help you!
Good luck with the project!
Martyn.
