Aircraft Flight

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.

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Inhalt

• 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