Aeronautical engineers' data book

This is an essential handy guide containing useful up to date information regularly needed by the student or practising engineer. Covering all aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides quick access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of informat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Matthews, Clifford
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080488288
0080488285
0750651253
9780750651257
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Important Regulations and Directives
  • 2. Fundamental Dimensions and Units
  • 3. Symbols and Notations
  • 4. Aeronautical Definitions
  • 5. Basic Fluid Mechanics
  • 6. Basic Aerodynamics
  • 7. Principles of Flight Dynamics
  • 8. Principles of Propulsion
  • 9. Aircraft Performance
  • 10. Aircraft Design and Construction
  • 11. Airport Design and Compatibility
  • 12. Basic Mechanical Design
  • 13. Reference Sources
  • App. 1. Aerodynamic stability and control derivatives
  • App. 2. Aircraft response transfer functions
  • App. 3. Approximate expressions for dimensionless aerodynamic stability and control derivatives
  • App. 4. Compressible flow tables
  • App. 5. Shock wave data.