ENGLISH

Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics

By David G. Hull

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
9783540465713, 3540465715
Open Library ID
OL9058100M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2603909 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
310\310
Topic
Physics
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Flight mechanics is the application of Newton's laws to the study of vehicle trajectories (performance), stability, and aerodynamic control. This text is concerned with the derivation of analytical solutions of airplane flight mechanics problems associated with flight in a vertical plane. Algorithms are presented for calculating lift, drag, pitching moment, and stability derivatives. Flight mechanics is a discipline. As such, it has equations of motion, acceptable approximations, and solution techniques for the approximate equations of motion. Once an analytical solution has been obtained, numbers are calculated in order to compare the answer with the assumptions used to derive it and to acquaint students with the sizes of the numbers. A subsonic business jet is used for these calculations.

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