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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

Aircraft Flight

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

    £999.99

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      Publisher Pearson Education
      Published 12 March 2009
      ISBN-13 9780273730989
      978-0273730989
      ISBN-10 0273730983
      Also in:
      Technology, Engineering & Agriculture Aerodynamics Aerospace and aviation technology

      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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