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Flight performance of fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

By: Filippone, AntonioMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (594 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780080461038Subject(s): Airplanes -- Performance | Aerospace engineering | Flight engineeringAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Flight Performance of Fixed and Rotary Wing AircraftDDC classification: 629.132 LOC classification: TL671.4.F55 2006Online access: Open e-book
Contents:
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Nomenclature: organizations -- Nomenclature: acronyms -- Nomenclature: main symbols -- Nomenclature: Greek symbols -- Nomenclature: subscripts/superscripts -- Supplements to the text -- Part I Fixed-Wing Aircraft Performance -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Physical units used -- 1.2 Performance parameters -- 1.3 Performance optimization -- 1.4 Certificate of Airworthiness -- 1.5 Upgrading of aircraft performance -- 1.6 Mission profiles -- 1.6.1 Fighter Aircraft Requirements -- 1.6.2 Supersonic Commercial Aircraft Requirements -- Problems -- 2 The aircraft and its environment -- 2.1 General aircraft model -- 2.2 Reference systems -- 2.2.1 Angular Relationships -- 2.3 Forces on the aircraft -- 2.4 Moments of inertia -- 2.5 Flight dynamics equations -- 2.6 The International Standard Atmosphere -- 2.7 Non-standard conditions -- Problems -- 3 Weight performance -- 3.1 The aircraft's weight -- 3.1.1 Wing Loading -- 3.2 Definition of weights -- 3.3 Weight estimation -- 3.4 Weight management -- 3.5 Range/payload diagram -- 3.6 Direct Operating Costs -- Problems -- 4 Aerodynamic performance -- 4.1 Aerodynamic forces -- 4.2 Lift equation -- 4.3 Vortex lift -- 4.4 High-lift systems -- 4.5 Drag equation -- 4.5.1 Zero-Lift Drag -- 4.6 Glide ratio -- 4.7 Glide ratio at transonic and supersonic speed -- 4.8 Practical estimation of the drag coefficient -- 4.9 Compressibility effects -- 4.10 Transonic drag rise -- 4.11 Lift and transonic buffet -- 4.12 Aero-thermodynamic heating -- 4.13 Aerodynamic penetration and radius -- 4.14 Aircraft vortex wakes -- 4.15 Aerodynamics and performance -- Problems -- 5 Engine performance -- 5.1 Gas turbine engines -- 5.2 Internal combustion engines -- 5.3 Engine flight envelopes -- 5.4 Power and thrust definitions.
17.9 Helicopter noise reduction.
Summary: downloadable flight performance modelling code.
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Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Nomenclature: organizations -- Nomenclature: acronyms -- Nomenclature: main symbols -- Nomenclature: Greek symbols -- Nomenclature: subscripts/superscripts -- Supplements to the text -- Part I Fixed-Wing Aircraft Performance -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Physical units used -- 1.2 Performance parameters -- 1.3 Performance optimization -- 1.4 Certificate of Airworthiness -- 1.5 Upgrading of aircraft performance -- 1.6 Mission profiles -- 1.6.1 Fighter Aircraft Requirements -- 1.6.2 Supersonic Commercial Aircraft Requirements -- Problems -- 2 The aircraft and its environment -- 2.1 General aircraft model -- 2.2 Reference systems -- 2.2.1 Angular Relationships -- 2.3 Forces on the aircraft -- 2.4 Moments of inertia -- 2.5 Flight dynamics equations -- 2.6 The International Standard Atmosphere -- 2.7 Non-standard conditions -- Problems -- 3 Weight performance -- 3.1 The aircraft's weight -- 3.1.1 Wing Loading -- 3.2 Definition of weights -- 3.3 Weight estimation -- 3.4 Weight management -- 3.5 Range/payload diagram -- 3.6 Direct Operating Costs -- Problems -- 4 Aerodynamic performance -- 4.1 Aerodynamic forces -- 4.2 Lift equation -- 4.3 Vortex lift -- 4.4 High-lift systems -- 4.5 Drag equation -- 4.5.1 Zero-Lift Drag -- 4.6 Glide ratio -- 4.7 Glide ratio at transonic and supersonic speed -- 4.8 Practical estimation of the drag coefficient -- 4.9 Compressibility effects -- 4.10 Transonic drag rise -- 4.11 Lift and transonic buffet -- 4.12 Aero-thermodynamic heating -- 4.13 Aerodynamic penetration and radius -- 4.14 Aircraft vortex wakes -- 4.15 Aerodynamics and performance -- Problems -- 5 Engine performance -- 5.1 Gas turbine engines -- 5.2 Internal combustion engines -- 5.3 Engine flight envelopes -- 5.4 Power and thrust definitions.

17.9 Helicopter noise reduction.

downloadable flight performance modelling code.

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