Product Information
Geared toward upper-level undergrads, graduate students, and practicing engineers, this comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of atmospheric flight focuses especially on the stability and control of airplanes. An extensive set of numerical examples covers STOL airplanes, subsonic jet transports, hypersonic flight, stability augmentation, and wind and density gradients.The equations of motion receive a very full treatment, including the effects of the curvature and rotation of the Earth and distortional motion. Complete chapters are given to human pilots and handling qualities and to flight in turbulence, with numerical examples for a jet transport. Small-perturbation equations for longitudinal and lateral motion appear in convenient matrix forms, both in time-domain and Laplace transforms, dimensional and nondimensional.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-139780486445229
eBay Product ID (ePID)13046451168
Product Key Features
Number of Pages592 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDynamics of Atmospheric Flight
Publication Year2005
SubjectEngineering & Technology
TypeTextbook
AuthorBernard Etkin
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight667 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorBernard Etkin
Series TitleDover Books on Aeronautical Engineering