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 fourth edition has been updated to include important recent developments such as unmanned air vehicles and the low orbit space-plane.
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 will prove invaluable to anyone working in or planning a career in aviation.
- For students of aeronautical engineering, it contains all the descriptive material necessary for courses from technician to degree level, and will provide background reading to the more mathematical texts.
- For trainee pilots it gives an understanding of the fundamental principles of flight.
- For new entrants to the aerospace and related industries it provides a basic understanding of the technical principles of flight
- For aviation enthusiasts it gives a non-mathematical treatment they can readily comprehend.