Series: Aerospace Series

Comprehensive textbook integrating the fundamentals of flight testing with introductory concepts in aerospace engineering. Introduction to Aerospace Engineering with a Flight Test Perspective provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of aerospace engineering while illuminating many aspects of real-world flight, covering topics such as aerodynamics, propulsion, performance, and stability and control. End-of-chapter problems are included along with a solutions manual...

Learn the aircraft design process from a systems-engineering perspective, designed for both aspiring and practising aerospace engineers. Aircraft design incorporates a range of technological areas, including aerodynamics, flight dynamics, propulsion, and structure. Aircraft engineering design therefore requires techniques from systems engineering to integrate the requirements from these disparate areas into a coherent whole. There has never been a greater need...

Performance of the Jet Transport Airplane: Analysis Methods, Flight Operations, and Regulations presents a detailed and comprehensive treatment of performance analysis techniques for jet transport airplanes. Uniquely, the book describes key operational and regulatory procedures and constraints that directly impact the performance of commercial airliners. Topics include: rigid body dynamics; aerodynamic fundamentals; atmospheric models (including standard and non-standard atmospheres); height...

Aerodynamics has seen many developments due to the growth of scientific computing, which has dramatically reduced the design cycle time of aerospace vehicles. Today, computational aerodynamics appears in the preliminary step of a new design, relegating costly, time-consuming wind tunnel testing to the final stages of design. Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics is designed to be a comprehensive textbook, covering classical...

This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters – Ground...

Theory and Practice of Aircraft Performance introduces the fundamentals of aircraft performance using industry standards and examples, effectively bridging the gap between academia and industry. It provides an extensive and detailed treatment of all segments of mission profile and overall aircraft performance. The book also considers important aspects such as operating costs, safety, environmental, and related systems issues. The text...

This third edition of Aircraft Systems represents a timely update of the Aerospace Series’ successful and widely acclaimed flagship title. Moir and Seabridge present an in-depth study of the general systems of an aircraft—electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, emergency systems, and flight control, to name but a few—that transform an aircraft shell into a living, functioning, and communicating flying machine. Advances in...

Understanding Aerodynamics offers a much-needed, fresh approach that brings greater insight into the physical understanding of aerodynamics. Based on the author’s decades of industrial experience with Boeing, this book assists students and practising engineers in gaining a deeper physical understanding of aerodynamics. Relying on clear physical arguments and examples, Doug McLean provides a necessary fresh perspective on this sometimes contentious...