Fundamentals of Airplane Flight MechanicsFlight 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. |
Contents
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Cruise and Climb of an Arbitrary Airplane 79 6888 | 79 |
Cruise and Climb of an Ideal Subsonic Airplane | 108 |
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Ps and Turns | 161 |
Drag polar | 185 |
Static Stability and Control | 211 |
Body Axes | 228 |
Dynamic Stability and Control | 237 |
A SBJ Data and Calculations | 262 |
B Reference Conditions and Stability Derivatives | 271 |
Elements of Linear System Theory | 278 |
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