> Can anyone suggest aerodynamics simulation software that will allow me
> to simulate the entire aircraft (and not just airfoil) including
> fuselage, wings, tail, canards, etc. In essence, I want to design a
> 3-D aircraft using this tool and then simulate it's flight dynamics
> to see if it is air-worthy.
>
> Please suggest shareware as well as commercial packages.
Try the X-Plane simulator. It has great flight dynamics, and you can
design your own plane accurately with a program which comes with the
simulator. If you design it correctly, it will match the real flight
dynamics pretty well. I think some real-world planes have been tested
in X-Plane before the plane was built, to test its flight
characteristics. And even if the graphics are not as good as in Flight
Simulator (in my opinion), they're still very nice. And it's frame-rate
friendlier! For me, it's a very good simulator, which lacks some
features of FS but has other great ones (try flying the Space Shuttle,
or flying in Mars). If you're looking for flight model accuracy, this
is the one. Take a look at www.x-plane.com Hope that helped.
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