[net.aviation] Airfoil generating software wanted

scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (12/04/85)

I'm looking for pointers to software or algorithms that would plot an 
airfoil given a series of "stations" (ordinates?) along the airfoil.

Thanks,

Scott Wiesner
{allegra, ucbvax, hao}!nbires!scott

jk@utastro.UUCP (John Krist) (12/05/85)

       There is a short program in the March 1985 issue of Sport Aviation,
   which is written in TRS-80 model III basic. It plots the foil full
   size on an Epson printer.  The foil is plotted using a Fourier
   curve fitting routine from specified ordinates.  It seems adaptable
   to other languages.  I will be adapting it someday to generate
   graphical 3-d models of wings on my computer in Fortran or C. The
   article is only two pages.  The magazine is a publication of the
   EAA ( Experimental Aircraft Association ).  If you want it, just
   tell me and I'll post it either here or in net.sources.  For some
   reason I can't mail anything to your location.
                                 
                                       John Krist
                                       U. Texas Astronomy Dept.
                                       (jk@utastro.UUCP)