Flight physics : essentials of aeronautical disciplines and technology, with historical notes
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Flight physics : essentials of aeronautical disciplines and technology, with historical notes
Springer, c2009
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Aëronautiek : Grondslagen en atechniek van het Vliegen
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
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  Hyogo
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
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  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Knowledge is not merely everything we have come to know, but also ideas we have pondered long enough to know in which way they are related, and 1 how these ideas can be put to practical use. Modern aviation has been made possible as a result of much scienti c - search. However, the very rst useful results of this research became ava- able a considerable length of time after the aviation pioneers had made their rst ights. Apparently, researchers were not able to nd an adequate exp- nation for the occurrence of lift until the beginning of the 21st century. Also, for the fundamentals of stability and control, there was no theory available that the pioneers could rely on. Only after the rst motorized ights had been successfully made did researchers become more interested in the science of aviation, which from then on began to take shape. In modern day life, many millions of passengers are transported every year by air. People in the western societies take to the skies, on average, several times a year. Especially in areas surrounding busy airports, travel by plane has been on the rise since the end of the Second World War. Despite becoming familiar with the sight of a jumbo jet commencing its ight once or twice a day, many nd it astonishing that such a colossus with a mass of several hundred thousands of kilograms can actually lift off from the ground.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 History of Aviation
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Early history and the invention of ballooning
- 1.3 The period between 1799 and 1870
- 1.4 The decades between 1870 and 1890
- 1.5 From 1890 until the Wright Flyer III
- 1.6 European aviation between 1906 and 1918
- 1.7 Aviation between the world wars
- 1.8 Development after 1940
- Bibliography
- 2 Introduction to Atmospheric Flight
- 2.1 Flying - How is that possible?
- 2.2 Static and dynamic aviation
- 2.3 Forces on the aeroplane
- 2.4 Lift, drag and thrust
- 2.5 Properties of air
- 2.6 The earth's atmosphere
- 2.7 The standard atmosphere
- 2.8 Atmospheric flight
- Bibliography
- 3 Low-Speed Aerodynamics
- 3.1 Speed domains and compressibility
- 3.2 Basic concepts
- 3.3 Equations for steady flow
- 3.4 Viscous flows
- 3.5 The boundary layer
- 3.6 Flow separation and drag
- 3.7 Shape and scale effects on drag
- Bibliography
- 4 Lift and Drag at Low Speeds
- 4.1 Function and shape of aeroplane wings
- 4.2 Aerofoil sections
- 4.3 Circulation and lift
- 4.4 Aerofoil section properties
- 4.5 Wing geometry
- 4.6 High-aspect ratio straight wings
- 4.7 Low-aspect ratio wings
- 4.8 The whole aircraft
- Bibliography
- 5 Aircraft Engines and Propulsion
- 5.1 History of engine development
- 5.2 Fundamentals of reaction propulsion
- 5.3 Engine efficiency and fuel consumption
- 5.4 Piston engines in aviation
- 5.5 Gas turbine engine components
- 5.6 Non-reheated turbojet and turbofan engines
- 5.7 Turboprop and turboshaft engines
- 5.8 Gas turbine engine operation
- 5.9 Propeller performance
- Bibliography
- 6 Aeroplane Performance
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Airspeed and altitude
- 6.3 Equations of motion for symmetric flight
- 6.4 Steady straight and level flight
- 6.5 Climb and descent
- 6.6 Gliding flight
- 6.7 Cruising flight
- 6.8 Take-off and landing
- 6.9 Horizontal steady turn
- 6.10 Manoeuvre and gust loads
- Bibliography
- 7 Stability and Control
- 7.1 Flying qualities
- 7.2 Elementary concepts and definitions
- 7.3 Tail surfaces and flight control
- 7.4 Pitchingmoment of aerofoils
- 7.5 Static longitudinal stability
- 7.6 Dynamic longitudinal stability
- 7.7 Longitudinal control
- 7.8 Static lateral stability
- 7.9 Dynamic lateral stability
- 7.10 Lateral control
- 7.11 Stalling and spinning
- Bibliography
- 8 Helicopter Flight Mechanics
- 8.1 Helicopter general arrangements
- 8.2 Hovering flight
- 8.3 The rotor in level flight
- 8.4 Flight performance
- 8.5 Stability and control
- Bibliography
- 9 High-Speed Flight
- 9.1 Complications due to the compressibility of air
- 9.2 Compressible flow relationships
- 9.3 Speed of sound and Mach number
- 9.4 Flow in a channel
- 9.5 Shock waves and expansion flows
- 9.6 High-subsonic speed
- 9.7 Transonic speed
- 9.8 Supersonic speed
- 9.9 Supersonic propulsion
- 9.10 Performance and operation
- Bibliography
- A Units and Dimensions
- B Principles of Aerostatics
- Index
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