In this second part of the Design Deep Dive series we go flying in a 72year old, exRoyal Air Force de Havilland dHC1 Chipmunk trainer aircraft and, along the way, we try to unravel some of its design secrets.

Timecodes
00:00 An aircraft in a ‘rarefied’ category
02:45 72 years young – a ‘mint’ Chipmunk
03:39 Takeoff, climb, and a matter of power
06:57 Geometry – reverse engineering the dHC1 wing
19:06 A vintage formation
21:25 A flight dynamics experiment
22:59 The boundaries of the flight envelope
30:54 Arrival (with a couple of twists)

Professor András Sóbester is a RAEng/AIRBUS Chair in Digital Design at the University of Southampton. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/...

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