Flight Dynamics Principles
eBook - PDF

Flight Dynamics Principles

A Linear Systems Approach to Aircraft Stability and Control

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Flight Dynamics Principles

A Linear Systems Approach to Aircraft Stability and Control

About this book

The study of flight dynamics requires a thorough understanding of the theory of the stability and control of aircraft, an appreciation of flight control systems and a comprehensive grounding in the theory of automatic control. Flight Dynamics Principles provides all three in an accessible and student focussed text. Written for those coming to the subject for the first time the book is suitable as a complete first course text. It provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control, and is ideal for those on course including flight mechanics, aircraft handling qualities, aircraft stability and control. Enhances by detailed worked examples, case studies and aircraft operating condition software, this complete course text, by a renowned flight dynamicist, is widely used on aircraft engineering courses- Suitable as a complete first course text, it provides a secure foundation from which to move on to more advanced topics such a non-linear flight dynamics, simulation and advanced flight control- End of chapter exercises, detailed worked examples, and case studies aid understanding and relate concepts to real world applications- Covers key contemporary topics including all aspects of optimization, emissions, regulation and automatic flight control and UAVs- Accompanying MathCAD software source code for performance model generation and optimization

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Flight Dynamics Principles
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the first edition
  6. Preface to the second edition
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Nomenclature
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction
  10. Chapter 2. Systems of axes and notation
  11. Chapter 3. Static equilibrium and trim
  12. Chapter 4. The equations of motion
  13. Chapter 5. The solution of the equations of motion
  14. Chapter 6. Longitudinal dynamics
  15. Chapter 7. Lateral–directional dynamics
  16. Chapter 8. Manoeuvrability
  17. Chapter 9. Stability
  18. Chapter 10. Flying and handling qualities
  19. Chapter 11. Stability augmentation
  20. Chapter 12. Aerodynamic modelling
  21. Chapter 13. Aerodynamic stability and control derivatives
  22. Chapter 14. Coursework Studies
  23. Appendices
  24. Index