General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures

General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures
ISBN-10
0128099984
ISBN-13
9780128099988
Pages
1048
Language
English
Published
2016-05
Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Author
Snorri Gudmundsson

Description

"Provides the practicing engineer with a versatile handbook that serves as the first source for finding answers to realistic aircraft design questions. The book is structured in an equation/derivation/solved example" format for easy access to content. Readers will find it a valuable guide to topics such as sizing of horizontal and vertical tails to minimize drag, sizing of lifting surfaces to ensure proper dynamic stability, numerical performance methods, and common faults and fixes in aircraft design. In most cases, numerical examples involve actual aircraft specs."--Provided by publisher.

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