Flight Performance of Fixed and Rotary Wing Aircraft (Hardback)

Calculation and optimization of flight performance is required to design or select new aircraft, efficiently operate existing aircraft, and upgrade aircraft. It provides critical data for aircraft certification, accident investigation, fleet management, flight regulations, and safety. This book presents an unrivalled range of advanced flight performance models for both transport and military aircraft, including the unconventional ends of the envelopes. There is unique and comprehensive coverage of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, including optimization, emissions control, and regulation as well as computer-based solutions of aerospace studies engineering problems; the critical analysis of performance data; and cases from real-world engineering experience. Topics covered include the numerical solution of supersonic acceleration, transient roll, optimal climb of propeller aircraft, propeller performance, long-range flight with en route stop, fuel planning, zero-gravity flight in the atmosphere, V/STOL operations, ski jump from aircraft carrier, optimal flight paths at subsonic and supersonic speed, range-payload analysis of fixed and rotary wing aircraft, performance of tandem helicopters, lower-bound noise estimation, sonic boom, and more. Ideal for students, for aeronautical engineering capstone projects, and for widespread professional reference in the aerospace industry.