Title:
Aircraft flight : a description of the physical principles of aircraft flight
Personal Author:
Edition:
4th ed.
Physical Description:
viii, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780273730989
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Summary
Summary
Aircraft Flight provides accurate physical, rather than mathematical, descriptions of the principles of aircraft flight. This popular text gives mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering students a useful introduction to the subject. The 4th Edition has been updated to include important recent developments such as unmanned air vehicles and the low orbit space-plane.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction |
| 1 Lift |
| 2 Wings |
| 3 The boundary layer and its control |
| 4 Drag |
| 5 High speed flow |
| 6 Thrust and propulsion |
| 7 Performance |
| 8 Supersonic aircraft |
| 9 Transonic aircraft |
| 10 Aircraft control |
| 11 Static stability |
| 12 Dynamic stability |
| 13 Take-off and landing |
| 14 Structural influences |
| Appendix: Some aerofoil characteristics |
| References |
| Index |
