General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures

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."--Provided by publisher.

• | Author: Snorri Gudmundsson
• | Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 1048 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0128099984
• | ISBN-13: 9780128099988