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How to build aircraft
\"Take to the skies with How to Build Aircraft. Featuring simple step-by-step instructions, handy templates, vibrant photographs, and easily accessible materials, this title shows readers how to build their very own aircraft that can really fly! Projects include a hot-air balloon, roto-copter, a variety of gliders, and many more.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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General Aviation Aircraft Design - Applied Methods and Procedures
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, this book provides the practicing engineer with a versatile handbook that serves as the first source for finding answers to realistic aircraft design questions. The book is structured in an \"equation/derivation/solved example\" format for easy access to content. Readers will find it a valuable guide to topics such as sizing of horizontal and vertical tails to minimize drag, sizing of lifting surfaces to ensure proper dynamic stability, numerical performance methods, and common faults and fixes in aircraft design. In most cases, numerical examples involve actual aircraft specs. Concepts are visually depicted by a number of useful black-and-white figures, photos, and graphs (with full-color images included in the eBook only). Broad and deep in coverage, it is intended for practicing engineers, aerospace engineering students, mathematically astute amateur aircraft designers, and anyone interested in aircraft design.
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Designing and building a miniature aero-engine
Helps you through all the stages of designing and constructing an aero-engine in your workshop at home.
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Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures
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From the earliest times, engineers have been inspired by birds as models for flight vehicles, and more
specifically, shape changing or morphing flight vehicles. A common thematic element has been to gaze upon a bird and imagine
\"the bird that changes into an airplane,\" and vice versa. Now that this vision is within reach, exciting research is
investigating the methodologies and technologies required. Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures is a synthesis of the
relevant disciplines and applications involved in the morphing of fixed-wing flight vehicles. The book is organized into three
major sections: Bio-inspirations; Control and Dynamics; and Smart Materials and Structures. Most chapters are both tutorial and
research oriented in nature, covering elementary concepts through advanced and in many cases novel methodologies. Insightful numerical
and experimental results complement the technical exposition wherever possible. To stimulate and encourage further investigation,
all chapters discuss further topics for research in particular subject areas, and a summary chapter addresses broad challenges and
directions for future research.
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Aircraft design concepts : an introductory course
Introduces the principles of aircraft design through a quantitative approach developed over two decades of teaching aircraft design to 4th-year and graduate students. Building on prerequisite courses, the text develops basic design skills and methodologies, while also explaining the underlying physics. The book uses an historical approach to examine a wide range of aircraft types and their design, and additionally builds an appreciation of the rich history of aeronautical engineering. Numerous charts, photos and illustrations enhance the presentation, which imparts both the technical knowledge and creativity needed for aircraft design.
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Design and Development of Aircraft Systems (3rd Edition)
This book is written for anyone who wants to understand how industry develops the customer requirement for aircraft into a fully integrated, tested, and qualified product that is safe to fly and fit for purpose. The new edition of this book fully expands its already comprehensive coverage to include both conventional and unmanned systems. It also updates all chapters to bring them in line with current design practice and technologies taught in courses at Cranfield, Bristol, and Loughborough universities in the UK. This book begins with an introduction to the subject. It then introduces readers to the aircraft systems (airframe, vehicle, avionic, mission, and ground systems). Following that comes a chapter on the design and development process. Other chapters look at design drivers, systems architectures, systems integration, verification of system requirements, practical considerations, and configuration control. The book finishes with sections that discuss the potential impact of complexity on flight safety, key characteristics of aircraft systems, and more.
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Aircraft design
\"Aircraft Design explores fixed winged aircraft design at the conceptual phase of a project. Designing an aircraft is a complex multifaceted process embracing many technical challenges in a multidisciplinary environment. By definition, the topic requires intelligent use of aerodynamic knowledge to configure aircraft geometry suited specifically to the customer's demands. It involves estimating aircraft weight and drag and computing the available thrust from the engine. The methodology shown here includes formal sizing of the aircraft, engine matching, and substantiating performance to comply with the customer's demands and government regulatory standards. Associated topics include safety issues, environmental issues, material choice, structural layout, understanding flight deck, avionics, and systems (for both civilian and military aircraft). Cost estimation and manufacturing considerations are also discussed. The chapters are arranged to optimize understanding of industrial approaches to aircraft design methodology. Example exercises from the author's industrial experience dealing with a typical aircraft design are included.\"--Publisher's website.
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Model Archiving and Sustainment for Aerospace Design
Model Archiving and Sustainment for Aerospace Design, written by Sean Barker, an industry veteran from the UK, focuses on the techniques developed by the LOTAR (Long Term Archiving and Retrieval) project, a collaboration among the major US and European aerospace companies. Long-term archiving models follows LOTAR by taking the exchange of mechanical CAD fi le as the paradigm for long-term retention and developing general principles for model archiving. These include electrical systems, composite parts, systems engineering and requirementsengineering. The increasing availability of model-based software has made the problems of long-term model sustainment more visible and pressing for a solution. Industries following LOTAR today include aerospace, automotive, nuclear and ship building. In the aerospace sector, the challenges are even bigger. Model Archiving and Sustainment for Aerospace Design makes sense of the immense challenges of rapid software change to ensure that the aircraft can be profitably sustained for the next seventy years.
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