What's New with the UIUC Applied Aero Group WWW Pages

• 5/15/07 - Added some Rhinoceros (3D CAD software) VBScripts for handling airfoil data in Rhino. Thanks to Rick Loheed.
• 9/27/06 - Updated David Lednicer's "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". Now includes 6424 aircraft in the listing!
• 4/14/06 - PROPID exe update.
• 11/18/05 - Bill Gilmore created CAD files for the airfoil database. Thanks Bill! The dwg files are here: Directory listing
• 9/15/05 - All links to this site have changed! The main site is now http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig ('aae' as used before was changed to 'ae' because of the department name change to Aerospace Engineering).
• 2/12/05 - PROFOIL-WWW is back! Thanks go to Jim Haliburton and his support staff for getting things fired up again!
• 1/24/05 - Updates to UIUC LSATs pages, including Volume 4 of Summary of Low-Speed Airfoil Data.
• 11/22/04 - Lots of broken link repair work and dept name changes ... That's one way to kill time.
• 3/16/04 - Airfoil data site updates (notes).
• 12/13/02 - Big update to the UIUC Airfoil Data Site: Version 2.0 coordinates now includes 1550 airfoils.
• 9/27/02 - After almost 8 yrs, the APA Group web pages have moved to a new location: http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig.
• 5/12/02 - Added some oil flow viz pictures to the UIUC LSATs homepage.
• 3/9/02 - Aircraft Dynamics Model page started: 20 aircraft models for use with the open source FlightGear flight simulator. Aircraft current modeled include: Beech 99, Boeing 747, Cessna 172, Cessna 310, Cessna 620, Convair 880, F-104 Starfighter, F-4 Phantom, Learjet 24, Pioneer UAV, Piper Cherokee, SIAI Marchetti S-211, Schweitzer 1-36 Sprite, T-37, Twin Otter, 1903 Wright Flyer, and X-15.
• 9/14/00 - Posted announcement for RA openings in the UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group.
• 8/14/00 - Removed the old webpage hit counter because that computer died ... Page hits were numbering around ~100,000 since 11/1996.
• 6/8/00 - Updated the AIAA DBF web pages for the competition year 2000/01.
• 2/11/00 - Put the UIUC AAE web-page search box on the UIUC Airfoil Data Site page.
• 9/23/99 - Added the Applied aerodynamics links page.
• 8/26/99 - Jay Thomas installed a search engine that indexes this site and all UIUC AAE web pages.
• 7/24/99 - PROPID version 3.3 is now posted on the PROPID pages.
• 4/1/99 - Updated the people.html page. Also, included the link to Mike Garton's airfoil-performance comparison web site at http://soaring.cnde.iastate.edu/calcs/frames.shtml. The link is now posted on the main page, but eventually I will move the link to the LSATs page.
• 3/1/98 - Dave Lednicer's The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage now includes over 1850 aircraft.
• 12/15/98 - Added links on homepage for flight sim software and horizontal axis wind turbine design software. These pages before had only limited distribution.
• 11/6/98 - Updated the research page: Current Research Activities. The previous one was nearly 2 years old.
• 11/2/98, 10/9/98, 9/19/98, 8/20/98, 7/31/98, 7/24/98 - Another update to The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage.
• 7/15/98 - Added some more links under "Other Airfoil Data and Information Sites" on the UIUC Airfoil Data Site page.
• 7/12/98 - Dave Lednicer added more airplanes to The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage. Many sailplanes this time, plus some more canards.
• 7/2/98 - Dave Lednicer added more airplanes to The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage.
• 6/12/98 - Dave Lednicer added around 100 more airplanes to The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage.
• 6/5/98 - AIAA DBF for 1998/99 contest season posted.
• 6/4/98 - Created and added The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage maintained and written by Dave Lednicer. Over 530 aircraft are included!
• 5/17/98 - Removed position-announcement page. All slots are full for Fall 1998. Revised the people page to reflect the changes w/ incoming people.
• 4/6/98 - Revised the pd.html and uiuc_lsat.html files to be up-to-date wrt Volume 3 recently being published. All data for Volumes 1, 2, and 3 is on the web (see UIUC LSATs page).
• 3/30/98 - Updated UIUC LSATs page and announced Summary of Low-Speed Airfoil Data - Volume 3.
• 2/6/98 - Added webpage links for people in the UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group. See the link: people.
• 12/29/97 - Added a follow-up to the SA* airfoils under the UIUC LSATs page. The link is found at the bottom of the article on the SA airfoils.
• 12/26/97 - Revised the UIUC LSATs homepage layout and also posted the most recent Camberline newsletter (No. 5). Also, added a nice picture of a pesky laminar separation bubble from Greg Cole and Prof. Mueller, Univ of Notre Dame.
• 12/20/97 - Updated sponsors under Current Research title, but all of the associated research topics are not yet listed under this link.
• 12/5/97 - Airfoil data from both Volumes 1 and 2 is on the web. See the FAQ for the link.
• 11/28/97 - Posted new photos on homepage. From left to right: Zond 500 kW wind turbine, D-558-II painting, and Stewart F1 car.
• 11/21/97 - Posted most recent UIUC LSATs wind tunnel model description.
• 11/14/97 - PROFOIL-WWW is now back up on the www. Also added a guestbook to the UIUC LSATs web page.
• 10/30/97 - Updated job announcement.
• 10/20/97 - Added Chris Carroll to the UIUC LSATs page. He is the coordinator standing in the wings to replace Chris Lyon who is soon to graduate and go on to greener pastures.
• 9/2/97 - Updated the People page and the openings in the UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group
• 8/28/97 - Opus ftp site for airfoil coordinates (UIUC Airfoil Data Site) is back online.
• 8/20/97 - Added more airfoils to the UIUC Airfoil Data Site.
• 7/5/97 - Fixed some typos.
• 5/12/97 - After some problems with the server, the site is back up. In the process, the PROFOIL-WWW to design airfoils was removed. Updated the call for new graduate students. Move entire site to amber.aae.uiuc.edu. However, the correct link to this site is http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig. This http URL will always point to my current web site ... it gets more around a lot, so edit your links accordingly.

  For site developers, if you want to link the UIUC Airfoil Data Site to your homepage, then use
  http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/ads.html
  and so on.

• 3/21/97 - Added link to Martin Hepperle's site with info on airfoils, winglets, etc - applied aerodynamics topics. The Hepperle link to the UIUC Airfoil Data Site page. On UIUC LSATs page, published article in three new airfoils for R/C sailplanes. Included tags: A,B,C,... on Airfoil Data Site coordinates page.
• 3/6/97 - PROFOIL-WWW is not working ... due to www server upgrade teething problems. Removed Opus server statistics from homepage ... again due to problems with new server. Added to UIUC Airfoil Data Site some XFOIL data on several flying wing airfoils. Updated People page.
• 1/22/97 - Included SoarTech data on UIUC LSATs page.
• 1/11/97 - Updated Current Projects page. The last was 1.5 years old! Added new people to People page
• 12/6/96 - Updated People page. Changed airfoil "logo" on airfoil data site.
• 11/9/96 - Moved the APA www pages to a new server: opus.aae.uiuc.edu. Be sure that your links, however, point to "http://www.uiuc.edu/~m-selig". Added Opus Server Statistics link at the tail end of the homepage. Posted some new airfoils to the Airfoil Data Site.
• 9/24/96 - Announced openings in UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group.
• 9/24/96 - Added more Saftey stuff and also revised the Question and Answer page format.
• 9/11/96 - Added Perl script to Airfoil Data Site for converting from the Lednicer format to the Selig format.
• 9/10/96 - Updated the AIAA Student Design/Build/Fly Competition pages. In particular, there are some photos of a prototype electric aircraft that meets the rules requirements.
• 8/3/96 - Changed home page gifs.
• 7/19/96 - Added the GNU General Public License to cover the contents of the UIUC Airfoil Data Site (coordinates).
• 6/3/96 - Summary of Low Speed Airfoil Data - Volume 2 is available.
• 5/23/96 - Thanks to the efforts of Mark Braton, gifs for all the airfoils in the Airfoil Data Site are now included.
• 5/4/96 -Included link to AIAA Student Design/Build/Fly Competition.
• 4/16/96 - Added the SD7037 airfoil input design file to the PROFOIL-WWW page.
• 3/4/96 - The previous UIUC Airfoil Data Site (Beta version) becomes the official version. Also added unix tar archive of all the airfoil coordinate files.
• 2/23/96 - Program update (2-20-96) put on UIUC LSATs homepage.
• 2/19/96 - Added counters to homepages and other main pages.
• 2/12/96 - PROFOIL-WWW Version 1.0 User's Guide is launched. It is not complete, but it is enough to call it a "User's Guide."
• 2/1/96 - Added a "products" section to the UIUC LSATs page.
• 12/29/95 - UIUC LSATs bulletin # 3 has been added as well as online model construction notes.
• 12/22/95 - A link to Brian Fuesz's homepages has been added on the People page.
• 12/15/95 - An expanded version of the UIUC Airfoil Data Site is now online. Go to the airfoil data site and click on the new version. Eventually this "beta" site will supercede the low Reynolds number airfoil database.
• 10/10/95 - "NEW AIRFOIL DATA SET FOR FRASER'S SAILPLANE DESIGN: For users of David Fraser's Sailplane Design program, I now have the new University of Illinois wind tunnel data available in a form that the program can use. Thanks to Charles Baltzer of Atlanta who wrote a program to convert the ascii text data from the tests into a data-set for Fraser's program, I have a new data set that contains all the usable results of the first volume of test data from UIUC. If you are a user of Fraser's program and would like to have the data, please send me a personal email and I will pass the file to you. The only compensation I'll want is a report of any problems you have with it." - Herk Stokely (herkstok@aol.com)
• 8/7/95 - Added airfoil performance data from UIUC LSATs Test Series No. 1. Installed PROFOIL-WWW Version 0.01 on the WWW. This program can be used to design your own airfoils. This page is not currently supported; use at your own risk. We are working on a user's guide.
• 6/24/95 - Added to the "Airfoil Data Site" David Lednicer's NACA airfoil generation program (in BASIC).
• 6/6/95 - Summary of Low Speed Airfoil Data - Volume 1 is available.
• 4/22/95 - A new e-mail address (selig@opus.aae.uiuc.edu) has been listed for those with misc airfoil related questions. The response may come from anyone at the University of Illinois working on the UIUC Low Speed Airfoil Tests. This has been set up to limit the amount of (interesting, but distracting) e-mail flooding into Selig's e-mail account.
• 3/29/95 - Added Selig's bio under people section.
• 3/24/95 - Bulletin #2 of the UIUC Low Speed Airfoil test has been added. Also, under the Misc. section, see the world's first ornithopter flapping its way into history.
• 2/17/95 - We've added our UIUC Low Speed Airfoil Tests logo. BTW: The airfoil shown on the logo is the S1223.
• 2/3/95 - Many SAE teams have requested information on the S1210 and S1223 airfoils. These airfoils have been wind tunnel tested, but we have not yet reduced all of the data and consequently are not ready to release it yet. The S1223 airfoil, however, was published in the AIAA paper 94-1866: M.S. Selig and J.J. Guglielmo, "High-Lift Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Design," presented at the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, June 20-22, Colorado Springs, CO. The data (Cl, Cd, Cm) in this paper should suffice for design purposes until we have reduced all of the data on the S1223 and all the other 30 or so airfoils tested. Hope this helps!
• 1/15/95 - Wind tunnel test data on the RG15 and S7012 is included in an update on the UIUC Low Speed Airfoil Tests.
• 12/20/94 - The People section is no longer empty. We have some bios.
• 12/17/94 - For now...just this What's New Page. But seriously Jim Guglielmo, Andy Broeren, Phil Giguere and I are right now in the wind tunnel around the clock (24 hours a day) taking data on several model airplane airfoils. The results will be put on the Web first! We should have something soon.
• 10/8/94 - UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group Home Page was started.