NONPLANAR WING CONCEPTS FOR INCREASED AIRCRAFT EFFICIENCY - http://aero.stanford.edu/Reports/VKI_nonplanar_Kroo.pdf

I found a quite interesting site:
http://www.nextcraft.com/
There was for example a 1/3 scale Berkut/Long-Ez project. 1/3 scale RC-model is said to be minimum sufficient for modeling the full scale aircraft, so I find this example quite educational. As can be seen though, the airfoils are different than on the full size plane. This is necessary because of the very low Re of the model. It does not thus model it very accurately, so there might be still surprises on the full scale version when scaling up, but I think it would still be good to do 1/3 models of new aircraft designs.

The direct link to the 1/3 scale Berkut can be found here: http://www.nextcraft.com/berkut01.html

Axial Flow Propulsor for Small Aircraft
Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation (CFD) and Experimental Study on Wing-external Store Aerodynamic Interference

Design of Carbon Composite Driveshaft for Ultralight Aircraft Propulsion System
Flying Wings. A New Paradigm for Civil Aviation?
Rapid Prediction of Configuration Aerodynamics in the ConceptualDesign Phase
Design of a Three Surfaces R/C Aircraft Model
Response of a Light Aircraft Under Gust Loads
FEM MODELLING OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES AND EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON
www.vgtu.lt/english/editions/aviation/dokumentai/Nr_01.pdf

I found interesting paper which tells some details about some ultralight aircraft, the better, even about the TL-96 Star we previously owned. I find it quite interesting.
http://ctn.cvut.cz/ap/download.php?id=77

Here is a great article with pictures and video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8400353.stm

Awesomely pretty machine. I would like to fly that thing (as a pilot rather than passenger).

I found this site quite interesting:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#AeronauticsandAstronautics

MIT course lecture material online for everybody for free.

Aerospaceweb's Atmosphere calculator
MicroMAPS Team Spring 2005 Final Report AOE 4065
Predator fact sheet
NASA tech paper TM-1998-206636 - Propulsion System for Very High Altitude Subsonic Unmanned Aircraft
CReSIS UAV Critical Design Review: The Meridian
Wikipedia: Altus UAV
History of HALE aircraft

jcoxon77's photostream, Flicr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcoxon77/

They look pretty cool, don't they?

But 76500 ft looks even cooler:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/nebarnix/sets/72157607393699828/

Interestingly though, 42000 ft still looks pretty amazing:

Here is a design paper about Tecnam P2006T. I find it quite interesting.
www.aidaa.it/3-2020/P2006_corr.pdf

Interesting detail with the used Rotax 912S is that it provides actually better thrust at takeoff and climb than same horse power with a Lycoming engine (because the engine nacelle has smaller frontal area and the propeller rotation speed is lower).

NASA TP PRELIMINARY AERODYNAMIC DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR ADVANCED LAMINAR FLOW AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS can be found from the following link. I found it quite interesting.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880014362_1988014362.pdf

I found an article about high altitude UAVs, and the Rotax 912 modification for Raptor UAV is mentioned here:
http://www.cre8tivenergy.com/uav.htm
(Quite interesting two stage turbo installation)

http://www.nextcraft.com/highlift_rc_setups.html

Pretty neat airfoil database with search and quick illustration capabilities.

http://www.worldofkrauss.com/

http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/
http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/

Bruce Carmichael: Minimizing fuselage drag. http://www.aerorag.com/resource/aircraft/aerodynamics/carmichael/min_fus_drag_carmichael.pdf

http://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsalamanca.khbo.be%3A8080%2Fdoks%2Fdo%2Ffiles%2FFiSe8a81998218eeb4e50118ef3ae0650156%2Feindwerk.pdf%3Bjsessionid%3D5E70EC2B35D00A97C21355C91E39AFE5%3FrecordId%3DSKHB8a81998218eeb4e50118ef3ae0630155&ei=0tKfSpiOCoaQsAbvkPkc&usg=AFQjCNE_pm74spwMHweSYoUJ4k-GTc4ocw&sig2=hhrDwapR25sdgbscQ8vHPA

Here is an article about turbo system of the highly modified Rotax:

http://www.designnews.com/article/13660-Turbo_power_reaches_new_heights.php

Interesting web site:

http://www.minijets.org/typo3/index.php

There is lots of strong feelings about tractor vs. pusher propeller configuration but no exact generic answer. Here is one article about the topic. Does not make definitive answer, but gives some background for the topic:

http://www.flyingmag.com/technicalities/1582/pusher-pusher.html

Here is another article:

http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/514042

Forum discussion

Another forum discussion

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=406&gTable=mtgpaper&gID=50663

Tractor (prop forward of laminar flow wing):

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=406&gTable=Paper&gID=1248

Aerodynamic Comparison of Hyper-Elliptic Cambered Span (HECS) Wings with Conventional Configurations

http://rcairplanedesign.googlepages.com/Design-BWB-Blended-Wing-Body-RCplane.htm

The mentioned AVL can be found from the following address:
http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/avl/