Customer Projects

Here are pictures of some customer projects...

Bill Suter's Bluebird

I was standing at the open end of a Forum pavillion at AirVenture 2009 waiting for a thunderstorm to pass when I struck up a conversation with someone else sheltering from the rain. His name was Bill Suter and he had flown to Oshkosh in an airplane he had designed and built called the Bluebird. After talking for a few minutes I learned that he is an AirplanePDQ customer and he had used AirplanePDQ during the design of his airplane. I walked over in the rain to take a look at his plane and took some pictures. It was one of the highlights of the trip for me. Here's a picture he emailed me. He also has a nice web site about the airplane here.

David Rose's "Rags"

Designed with help from AirplanePDQ, Rags won the Biplane division at the Reno National Championship Air Races in 2002.  In the process it set a new class speed record of 224.20 mph and a new qualifying record of 226.91 mph.  As a result of those speed records, Rose won the Pulitzer Aviation Trophy. This was Rose's third consecutive win in the biplane division at Reno.

UAV by 
Aerospace Sciences Corporation Pty Ltd

This tandem-wing UAV was designed as an airborne magnetic sensing platform using Airfoil Optimizer as well as other design tools.  The aircraft is 4m in length, has a wingspan of 2.8m and a maximum takeoff weight of 85 kg with a maximum 25 kg payload.

SD1 by Steven Di Leo

Designed using AirplanePDQ, the SD1 is a 2 seater designed with both a sport class variant and a higher performance experimental variant.

If you have used AirplanePDQ or Airfoil Optimizer on a project please send us a picture we can include on this page.