Investigation of Transonic Drag Computations in Aerodynamic ...

Investigation of Transonic Drag Computations in APAS
7.0 Acknowledgments
I would first like to thank Dr. John Olds of the Georgia Institute of Technology
for his guidance on this project. James McIntire, a full time employee of the Lincoln
Laboratory in Boston, taught me how to use APAS and has always been eager to help as
both coworker and a friend. For that I would like to thank him as well.
The WAVDRAG analysis would not have been possible withiout the assistance of
Ralph Carmichael, who oversees distribution of the PDAS (Public Domain Aeronautical
Software) CD-ROM on which I found the program and pointed me towards a local copy,
saving me both time and $295. Without the instructional information he added to the
program, learning how to use WAVDRAG would have been substantially more difficult.
I would also like to thank Mark Waters of Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Systems Design
Lab for providing me with the actual copy of PDAS that I used.
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