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Conic Sections Applied to Aircraft Dr. S.M. Malaek Assistant: M. Younesi Conic Sections Conic Sections The Ellipse Though not so simple as the circle, the ellipse is nevertheless the curve most often seen in everyday life. The reason is that every circle, viewed obliquely, appears elliptical. The Ellipse The early Greek astronomers thought that the planets moved in circular orbits about an unmoving earth, since the circle is the simplest mathematical curve. In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler eventually discovered that each planet travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit with the sun at