Airplane stability and control : a history of the technologies that made aviation possible /
"Much of the book's content captures never-before-available impressions of those active in the field, from pre-Wright brothers airplane and glider builders straight through to contemporary aircraft designers. The chapters are arranged thematically, dealing with single subjects over their e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | Cambridge aerospace series ;
14. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Early developments in stability and control
- Research centers and texts
- Flying qualities becomes a science
- Power effects on stability and control
- Managing control forces
- Stability and control at the design stage
- The jets at an awkward age
- The discovery of inertial coupling
- Spinning and recovery
- Tactical airplane maneuverability
- High mach number difficulties
- Naval aircraft problems
- Ultra-light and human-powered airplanes
- Fuel slosh, deep stall, and more
- Safe personal airplanes
- Stability and control issues with variable sweep
- Modern canard configurations Evolution of the equations of motion
- The elastic airplane
- Stability augmentation
- Flying qualities research moves with the times
- Challenge of stealth aerodynamics
- Very large aircraft
- Work still to be done.