Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Fourth Edition

9781563478291

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Daniel P. Raymer

Genre Engineering

Format Hardcover

Dimensions 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.90 (d)

Pages 869

Publisher American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics

Publication Date June 2002

ISBN 9781563478291

Book ISBN 10 1563478293

About Book

Winner of the Summerfield Book Award

Winner of the Aviation-Space Writers Association Award of Excellence.

—Over 30,000 copies sold, consistently the top-selling AIAA textbook title

This highly regarded textbook presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design—from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studies—in the same manner seen in industry aircraft design groups. Interesting and easy to read, the book has more than 800 pages of design methods, illustrations, tips, explanations, and equations, and extensive appendices with key data essential to design. It is the required design text at numerous universities around the world, and is a favorite of practicing design engineers.

The fourth edition is enhanced in many areas, with improvements and reworking of the text, expanded sizing and analysis methods, and up-to-date treatments of emerging technologies and concepts. A new section provides an introduction to spaceflight and rockets, including thrust analysis and vehicle sizing for launch and planetary missions. Appendices are revised and additional exam questions are provided.

Reviews

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Presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design, from requirements definition through initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, and trade studies, in the same manner as seen in industry aircraft design groups. Focus is on design layout and design analysis. Because material concentrates on industry practice rather than theoretical definitions, only an elementary knowledge of mathematics is required. A simplified but complete set of first-order analytical methods is presented. Chapters cover every phase of conceptual design, including payload considerations, aerodynamics, propulsion, handling, cost analysis, and performance. This third edition adds metric data, and is revised to reflect the latest advances in technology. Includes extensive appendices with key design data. The author is president of Conceptual Research Corporation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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