Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics

• Main Author: Hull, David G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mathematical models.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational intelligence.; Automotive engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Automotive Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

Airplane flight mechanics is the application of Newton's laws to the study of airplane trajectories (performance), stability, and aerodynamic control. This text is limited to flight in a vertical plane and is divided into two parts. The first part, trajectory analysis, is concerned primarily wi...

Table of Contents:

• to Airplane Flight Mechanics
• 3DOF Equations of Motion
• Atmosphere, Aerodynamics, and Propulsion
• Cruise and Climb of an Arbitrary Airplane
• Cruise and Climb of an Ideal Subsonic Airplane
• Take-off and Landing
• PS and Turns
• 6DOF Model: Wind Axes
• Static Stability and Control
• 6DOF Model: Body Axes
• Dynamic Stability and Control.