Description
Book SynopsisAircraft 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
