Aerospace Engineering

                 Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the research, design process, development, construction, testing, science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
It is divided into two major and overlapping branches:

1. Aeronautical engineering.
2. Astronautical engineering.

                                 

Aeronautical Engineering

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This branch is related to Aeronautics and deals with aircraft operations inside the Earth's atmosphere. To be more clear, Aeronautics is associated with all types of Aeroplane. This branch also consists of Aerodynamics.

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Astronautical Engineering

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This branch is related to Astronautics. It deals with spacecraft of all types, that is, objects that operate outside the Earth's atmosphere. This is also known as " Rocket Science ".

The field of Aerospace Engineering also covers their aerodynamic characteristics and behaviors, airfoil, control surfaces, lift, drag, and other properties.

History

The origin of aerospace engineering can be traced back to the aviation pioneers around the late 19th to early 20th centuries, although the work of Sir George Cayley dates from the last decade of the 18th to mid-19th century. One of the most important people in the history of aeronautics, Cayley was a pioneer in aeronautical engineering and is credited as the first person to separate the forces of lift and drag, which are in effect on any flight vehicle. Early knowledge of aeronautical engineering was largely empirical with some concepts and skills imported from other branches of engineering. Scientists understood some key elements of aerospace engineering, like fluid dynamics, in the 18th century. Many years later after the successful flights by the Wright brothers, the 1910s saw the development of aeronautical engineering through the design of World War I military aircraft.

George Cayley.