The Merlin MPX521 Engineering Flight Simulator at Swansea provides the highest degree of sophistication with its unique 3D visualisation capability combined with the latest software and rotary wing module.
Watch videos of our students talking about their experience studying Aerospace at Swansea University and see the flight simulator in action.
Horace, the wind tunnel was designed in Swansea University in the early 1960’s and has been sold all over the world.
It has a reasonably large working area and can realise wind speeds up to 28m/s which has benefitted research projects ranging from Formula 1 racing teams to wind turbines for power generation. With its highly sophisticated balance arrangement it can be used to make incredibly accurate lift and drag measurements.
The College houses a fully instrumented JetCat P120 engine that is used for teaching and for research projects, ranging from thermodynamic experiments to instrumentation and bio-fuel diversity.
Strategic use of external facilities is made to complement what is done in-house.
Part of the study will take the students to one of the local airports where they will gain hands-on flying experience.
Workshop training is carried out at the International Centre for Aerospace Training (ICAT) which is a facility for the EASA part 147 00.0020 approved training and EASA approved examinations. In this environment the students get the opportunity to obtain a taste of working in an aerospace engineering workshop and of real hands-on aircraft maintenance.
In the second year, students will take part in flying classroom lessons in a fully instrumented, twin turboprop Jetstream plane at Cranfield. This exercise is then followed up using the in-house flight simulator, giving the students the opportunity to understand flight mechanics and the very powerful link between ‘real’ flight and simulation.
