Instructor: Willem AJ Anemaat

Willem AJ Anemaat
Biography: Willem A. J. Anemaat is president and co-founder of Design, Analysis and Research Corporation (DARcorporation), an aeronautical engineering and prototype development company. DARcorporation specializes in airplane design and engineering consulting services, wind and water tunnel testing and design and testing of wind energy devices. Anemaat is the software architect for the Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA) software, an airplane preliminary design and analysis tool. He has been actively involved with more than 400 airplane design projects and has run many subsonic wind tunnel tests for clients. Anemaat has more than 30 publications in the field of airplane design and analysis. He is the recipient of the SAE 2010 Forest R. McFarland Award, an AIAA associate fellow and an associate editor for the AIAA Journal of Aircraft. Anemaat is vice-chair of the AIAA Aircraft Design Technical Committee. Anemaat holds a master's degree from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from The University of Kansas.

Anemaat has taught for Aerospace Short Courses since 2011. He teaches our Airplane Flight Dynamics, Principles of Aerospace Engineering, Airplane Preliminary Design and Conceptual Design of Unmanned Aircraft Systems courses.

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Participants in this course learn an overview of airplane static and dynamic stability and control theory and applications as well as classical control theory and applications to airplane control systems. An overview of flying qualities and regulations is included.

Course preview webinars: Flight Dynamics in Airplane Design: The Importance of Trim and Airplane Design: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned



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September 13-17, 2027, San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
This course provides a conceptual approach to the overall design of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) including concepts of operations, communications, payloads, control stations, air vehicles and support. It also covers requirements and architecture development, initial sizing and conceptual-level parametric and spreadsheet assessment of major system elements.

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May 17-19, 2027, KU School of Engineering, LEEP2 Building