Any Aerospace Engineers here?

[Freshgeardude]

Hai.
I graduated aero/astro + math in 08 from MIT. I'm working toward my phd in aero/astro there now. I'm doing the thing that's sort of a natural combination of aero & math--CFD. I'm not sure where I'm going to go with that though. I don't have strong objections to academia, govt labs, or industry, lol.

Also, wow I had no idea there were so many aero folks on these forums.

wow! MIT I am impressed!

 

[Bignate603]

Don't work for Saab

Saab the aerospace company =! Saab the car company

I work for the DOD and do some analysis on helicopter every now and then. Its a shame the T-800 engine never made it to large scale production.

Bignate do you know anything about this engine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHTEC_T800
edit: Large scale production, for US military.

That was before my time. I only started working at Honeywell in 2007. I do know that it's a very good engine.

A new Turkish helicopter is using the T800 and has a pretty cool first flight video from this October. The turkish helicopter actually uses a detuned version. The Commanche would have had the more powerful version and is a bit lighter. That thing would have been ridiculously fast.

Youtube link to Turkish first flight video

A zero G drop, barrel roll and back flip in a helicopter is pretty cool. It would have been even more amazing if the fully built up engine ended up in the helicopter it was meant for.