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    The document announces a seminar on aircraft design case studies to take place on May 11th, 2011 from 2:15pm to 3:45pm in classroom 300-300. The speaker will be Mr. Mark Page, who has over 30 years of experience in aerospace engineering and racecar development. He will currently serves as the Chief Scientist at Swift. The topic of the seminar will be on the relationship between beauty and performance in airplane design. Mr. Page will examine examples of beautiful and ugly aircraft, compare them to an international survey, and explore reasons why beautiful aircraft may also perform well. He will also discuss the Eclipse Concept Jet designed by Swift as a real-life case study of how beauty factored into

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    Beauty in Airplane Design: 7 AA294 Seminar On Case Studies of Aircraft Design

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    7thAA294SeminaronCaseStudiesofAircraftDesign

    BeautyinAirplaneDesign

    TimeandVenue:
    Time:2:15pmto3:45pm,Wednesday,11thMay,2011
    Venue:classroom300300.

    ShortBiography:
    Mr.MarkPagegraduatedfromtheUniversityofIllinoisin1979withaB.S.degreeinAeronautical
    andAstronauticalEngineering.InAerospace,Mr.Pagehas18yearsofexperienceatMcDonnell
    Douglas,andwasaResearchFellow.Mr.PagewastheTechnicalProgramManagerfortheNASA
    BlendedWingBody(BWB)Program,andcoinventoroftheBWBconfigurationwithDr.Robert
    LiebeckandBlaineRawdonofBoeing.Subsequently,Mr.Pageaccumulated13yearsof
    experienceinracecardevelopment,whilealsoteachingasanAdjunctProfessorintheAerospace
    EngineeringdepartmentattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia.Mr.PageispresentlytheChief
    ScientistatSwift.AtSwift,hehasconducteddesignworkfortheEclipseConceptJetandthe
    KillerBeeUAV.

    Abstract:
    It'softensaid"ifitlooksgood,itwillflygood".Mostwouldagreethatthisisanoverstatement.
    Yetmostpeoplealsobelievethisismainlytrue.Inthislecturewe'lllookataparadeofbeautiful
    anduglyairplanes,voteonourfavorites,andcomparethemtoaninternationalsurveyconducted
    lastyear.Nextwe'lllookatreasonsforalinkbetweenbeautyandperformance.Andfinallywe'll
    appealtoprinciplesoffacialbeauty.

    Asanaddendumwe'lllookattheEclipseConceptJetstory.In2007,Swiftwassecretly
    contractedtodesign,buildandflyasmallbizjetin200days.Therelevanceofbeautywillbe
    exploredinthisreallifeexample.

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