Aircraft Performance & Design

9780070019713

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John D. Anderson

Genre Engineering

Format Hardcover

Dimensions 7.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Pages 600

Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies, The

Publication Date December 1998

ISBN 9780070019713

Book ISBN 10 0070019711

About Book

Written by one of the most succesful aerospace authors, this new book develops aircraft performance techniques from first principles and applies then to real airplanes. It also address a philosophy of, and techniques for aircraft design. By developing and discussing these two subjects in a single text, the author captures a degree of synergism not found in other texts. The book is written in a conversational style, a trademark of all of John Anderson's texts, to enhance the readers' understanding.

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Booknews

Anderson, whose engineering and other scholarly credits include a chair at the National Air and Space Museum, as well as faculty positions in both history and aeronautical engineering at the University of Maryland, intended this text for a first course in airplane performance. As such it covers design philosophy and methodology in order to show how working engineers achieve their performance standards. Part I is an overview of aerodynamics and propulsion. Part II covers static and accelerated aircraft performance and equations of motion, and part III describes design methodologies using historical examples. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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