Aircraft Flight: A Description Of The Physical Principles Of Aircraft Flight, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (26 November 2009) © 2010

  • RH Barnard University of Hertfordshire
  • DR Philpott University of Hertfordshire
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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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