About

Welcome to my space on the internet! I’m R. N. West, an aeronautical engineer by profession, though I have a number of interests, some of which are listed below:

• Airships (primarily conceptual design, performance, and flight dynamics)
• Fluid Mechanics
• Sustainable energy and transport
• Human-powered vehicles
• Linux and other free/libre software
• Web development
• Language learning
• Gliding
• Lifting weights
• Photography
• Economics
• Music theory

On this website, I publish my notes and thoughts on the topics above (in the ‘Posts’ section). You can also find descriptions of the projects I’m working on (in the ‘Projects’ section).

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