These are most older plans for homebuilt aircraft. Some of these may or may not be ultralights so may require a pilot's license to fly.
The files included in this category are sometimes full packages, which include the model, panel and paintwork, however; these are some files that are simply repaints of existing default aircraft - which means all you have to do is copy the paint scheme into existing folders and fly the default aircraft with your new livery applied - be it Virgin, British Airways, United, American Airlines. The aircraft includes a 3D virtual cockpit and standard 2D panel too - so you can have the best of both. Honda ns 125 f haynes manual. The aircraft is amphibious so you can land it on a runway when needed and also make a sea landing too (to pick up water supplies). View/download the file over here. Mark Rooks' Cirrus SR22. This page shows a collection of free airplane design software to solve computations for Preliminary Aircraft Design, Wing & Aircraft Aerodynamics, Aircraft Stability and Aircraft Structures. If you know of any free aircraft design software that would fit into any of these categories, please let me know by dropping me an email message.
Image | Description | File Spec. | Download |
Alco Sportplane: An interesting looking monoplane form the 1920s that looks to be straightforward and sturdy. This was once in production. | 10 Pgs 2.6 MB | ||
Baby Bullet: An early racing monoplane of 1920s design. Looks like at least one was built and flown. | 22 Pgs 6.1 MB | ||
Heath Biplane Glider: This 2-place glider was designed by one of the famous hombuilt aircraft pioneers, Heath. The article shows it doing aerobatics. | 16 Pgs 3.2 MB | ||
Chilton High Performance Monoplane: A British design, this good looking airplane is very well detailed and looks well designed. | 68 Pgs 12.3 MB | ||
Church Midwing: This is a mid-wing variant of the famous Heath Parasol, of which many were built and flown back in the depression era. | 8 Pgs 2.3 MB | ||
Driggs Dart: Another popular 1920s design, the Driggs was quite a popular plane among pioneering hombuilders. | 10 Pgs 2.3 MB | ||
Pou-du-Ciel (Sky Flea): Henri Mignet's famous French tandem wing design from 1934. Henri's family graciously offered his design to the public domain after his passing. THis has been and still is a popular homebuilt in Europe. Very well detailed large scale prints (in French) available now for free download. | 28 Pgs 30.2 MB | ||
Georgia's Special: A very nice looking early parasol monoplane. | 7 Pgs 1.6 MB | ||
Gere Biplane: A classic 1920s biplane design for the home builder. A bit more work than some but the results should be worth it. | 16 Pgs 3.6 MB | ||
Goat 4 Glider: A modern designed open glider, very well detailed. Looks like a LOT of fun! | 82 Pgs 2.1 MB | ||
The Henderson Longster: Yet another vintahge ride that was popular way back when. Nice designs like this just should not be allowed to fade into obscurity. | 10 Pgs 2.0 MB | ||
The Lincoln Biplane: Looks pretty small to me, but might be just the thing for someone looking for an ultra compact homebuilt. | 15 Pgs 3.7 MB | ||
The Monerai Sailplane: A modern, high performance sailplane with a power option, now in the public domain. | 11 Pgs 11.2 MB | ||
Northrup 1928 Glider: An early publication of Jack Northrup's (I assume?) The article in in Spanish. | 7 Pgs 509 kB | ||
Pietenpol Air Camper: Perhaps one of the most famous, and most constructed early homebuilts. This one is a two place version featuring a Ford Model A engine. | 33 Pgs 7.2 MB | ||
Pietenpol Sky Scout: This is the single place version of the Air Camper, this one with a Ford Model T engine. | 22 Pgs 6.6 MB | ||
Powell PH Racer Biplane: Here's a good looking 1920s small racing biplane that would be a great build today. | 14 Pgs 2.5 MB | ||
Ramsey Flying Bathtub: Another famous and popular early homebuilt, the flying bathtub was easy to build and a supposedly flew very well. | 18 Pgs 4.5 MB | ||
Russian Argo: Here's a clean looking Russian design that looks pretty easy to build. Plans are metric. | 11 Pgs 1.3 MB | ||
Woodhopper: A modern designed all-wood ultralight that looks like a blast. | 6 Pgs 20.6 MB |
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TORNADO - Vortex Lattice Method - VLM | A Vortex Lattice Method (VLM) implemented in MATLAB. The code is intended for linear aerodynamic wing design applications, in conceptual aircraft design or in aeronautical education. Among other things it can do such nice things as computing and displaying the Treffz plane velocity vector field. Known Cessna C-172 data was used to validate the code agains other codes such as AVL, VIRGIT and CMARC. |
NASA's OpenVSP | OpenVSP (Vehicle Sketch Pad) is NASA's free parametric aircraft geometry design tool. OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters. This model can be processed into formats suitable for engineering analysis. |
XFLR5 Airfoil and Wing analysis tool | XFLR5 uses XFOIL as its computation kernel and adds a graphical user interface for Windows operating systems. You still need the XFOIL manual to find your way around. XFLR5 also offers a 3D wing design capability, using two different calculation schems. The one similar to MIAReX (described further down below) uses the built in XFOIL kernel to determine local wing section properties. Highly recommended! |
MIAReX | A calculation method for Xfoil and multi-airfoil wings, based on formulae developed by James C. Sivells & Robert H. Neely in NACA TN-1269 (1947). Basically it takes 2D wing section data and integrates the various 2D section properties across the span to arrive at a 'semi-3D' solution. |
CEASIOM | The CEASIOM application is a free Conceptual Aircraft Design tool. It was developed within the frame of the SimSAC (Simulating Aircraft Stability And Control Characteristics for Use in Conceptual Design) Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) approved for funding by the European Commission 6th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. |
AVL | AVL is an extended vortice lattice method (VLM) software that supports aircraft configuration development by offering aerodynamic analysis, trim calculation and dynamic stability analysis, among other things. A design program by professor Mark Drela and Harald Youngren. |
PANUKL | From the manual: PANUKL 2012 is the next version of the package (after 2002) and can be used for aerodynamic computation of an aircraft, using (a) low order panel method. |