Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance /

Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance / / N. Harris McClamroch.

This undergraduate textbook offers a unique introduction to steady flight and performance for fixed-wing aircraft from a twenty-first-century flight systems perspective. Emphasizing the interplay between mathematics and engineering, it fully explains the fundamentals of aircraft flight and develops...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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McClamroch, N. Harris,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 23 halftones. 70 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF MATLAB M-FILES
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Aircraft Components and Subsystems
  • 2. Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics
  • 3. Aircraft Translational Kinematics, Attitude, Aerodynamic Forces and Moments
  • 4. Propulsion Systems
  • 5. Prelude to Steady Flight Analysis
  • 6. Aircraft Steady Gliding Longitudinal Flight
  • 7. Aircraft Cruise in Steady Level Longitudinal Flight
  • 8. Aircraft Steady Longitudinal Flight
  • 9. Aircraft Steady Level Turning Flight
  • 10. Aircraft Steady Turning Flight
  • 11. Aircraft Range and Endurance in Steady Flight
  • 12. Aircraft Maneuvers and Flight Planning
  • 13. From Steady Flight to Flight Dynamics
  • Appendix A. The Standard Atmosphere Model
  • Appendix B. End-of-Chapter Problems
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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