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

Published by Pearson (November 26, 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 fourth edition has been updated to include important recent developments such as unmanned air vehicles and the low orbit space-plane.

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.

  • unmanned air vehicles, the low-orbit space-plane and other important recent developments are now included
  • additional and updated references and recommendations for further reading

  • updated photographs and figures

  • improvements to the technical descriptions, based on a reappraisal and on readers’ comments

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  • 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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