Understanding Performance Flight Testing: Kitplanes and Production Aircraft

Hubert Smith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2001 | 2nd edition
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
9780071376792 (ISBN)

Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage

Artikel merken

This work covers lightplane performance flight testing methods, measures, and computer applications. It includes CD-ROM with sample spreadsheets containing equations to help readers perform their own flight tests. It describes GPS (Global Positioning System) test method for airspeed calibration and rapid-wind camera method for takeoff performance.

Hubert C. "Skip" Smith (University Park, PA) is Associate Professor Emeritus, Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of McGraw-Hill's The illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics, Second Edition.

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Effects of Atmosphere. Chapter 2: General Flight Test Procedures. Chapter 3: Airspeed Calibration. Chapter 4: Stall Speed. Chapter 5: Takeoff Performance. Chapter 6: Climb Performance. Chapter 7: Cruise Performance. Chapter 8: Descent and Landing Performance. Chapter 9: Computer Methods. Chapter 10: Evaluating Modification Effects. Appendix A: Symbols, Conversion Factors, Data Sheet Appendix B: Performance Data Examples Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2001
Zusatzinfo	100 Illustrations, unspecified
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 231 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
Themenwelt	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-13	9780071376792 / 9780071376792
Zustand	Neuware