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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

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A Paperback by R.H. Barnard, D.R. Philpott

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    Publisher: Pearson Education
    Publication Date: 12/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780273730989, 978-0273730989
    ISBN10: 0273730983

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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

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