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General aviation aircraft design : applied methods and procedures /

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"Find the right answer the first time with this useful handbook of preliminary aircraft design. Written by an engineer with close to 20 years of design experience, General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures provides the practicing engineer with a versatile handbook that se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gudmundsson, Snorri (Author)
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2014]
Subjects:
Airplanes > Design and construction.
Airplanes / Design and construction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • HELPFUL NOTES
  • Helpful Websites for the aircraft designer
  • The Greek alphabet
  • List of abbreviations and common terms
  • Handy conversion factors
  • A note about mass and force
  • A note about format
  • Aircraft design DOs and DON'Ts
  • Professor Gudmundsson's Cake Philosophy
  • 1. The aircraft design process
  • 2. Aircraft cost analysis
  • 3. Initial sizing
  • 4. Aircraft conceptual layout
  • 5. Aircraft structural layout
  • 6. Aircraft weight analysis
  • 7. Selecting the power plant
  • 8. The anatomy of the airfoil
  • 9. The anatomy of the wing
  • 10. The anatomy of lift enhancement
  • 11. The anatomy of the tail
  • 12. The anatomy of the fuselage
  • 13. The anatomy of the landing gear
  • 14. The anatomy of the propeller
  • 15. Aircraft drag analysis
  • 16. Performance: Introduction
  • 17. Performance: Take-off
  • 18. Performance: Climb
  • 19. Performance: Cruise
  • 20. Performance: Range analysis
  • 21. Performance: Descent
  • 22. Performance: Landing
  • 23. Miscellaneous design notes.