Author: Christopher SmithPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445651254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Explores the fascinating history of Supermarine.
General Aviation Aircraft Design
Author: Snorri GudmundssonPublisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0123973295
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
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, 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. 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. - Organized by articles and structured in an "equation/derivation/solved example" format for easy access to the content you need - Numerical examples involve actual aircraft specs - Contains high-interest topics not found in other texts, including 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 - Provides a unique safety-oriented design checklist based on industry experience - Discusses advantages and disadvantages of using computational tools during the design process - Features detailed summaries of design options detailing the pros and cons of each aerodynamic solution - Includes three case studies showing applications to business jets, general aviation aircraft, and UAVs - Numerous high-quality graphics clearly illustrate the book's concepts (note: images are full-color in eBook only)
Aircraft Performance & Design
Author: John David AndersonPublisher: McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Balancing technical material with important historical aspects of the invention and design of aeroplanes, this book develops aircraft performance techniques from first principles and applies them to real aeroplanes.
Enemy at the Gates
Author: Justo MirandaPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
When the Nazis started to threaten the world with their efficient machine of propaganda, the main concern of European governments was the overwhelming reaction of panic that the expected bombing of the Luftwaffe might cause within the civil population. During the Munich Agreement in 1938, the democracies were defended by old biplanes and a bunch of modern fighters: 50 Hurricanes, 20 Morane-405 and 5 Fokker D.XXI. France and Great Britain took up the production of USA airplanes and cancelled exports to small countries, which were forced to design and build their own PANIC FIGHTERS with the intelligence and skill that desperation provides. When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did Australia, to face the Japanese expansion. At the time the course of events switched, it was the Axis powers that had to create their own PANIC FIGHTERS, some of them suicidal. The present book includes several last resource designs of fighters that are practically unknown and that were developed in times of tribulation by Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Netherland, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland.
Author: Brian Cassidy
Author: Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III)The Grand Designers
Author: John D. Anderson JrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108340563
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane. He aims to answer the question of whether airplane advancement has been driven by a parallel advancement in the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design. In doing so, Anderson identifies and examines six case histories of 'grand designers' in this field, and challenges some of the preconceived notions of how the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design advanced. Filled with over one hundred illustrations which bring his words to life, Anderson unfolds the lives and thoughts of these grand designers.
The Supermarine Walrus
Author: George William Robert NichollPublisher: London : Foulis
ISBN:
Category : Amphibian planes
Languages : da
Pages : 240
Book Description
Beskriver det engelske Vickers Supermarine Walrus amfibiefly, som under 2. verdenskrig blev anvendt til mange opgaver, herunder eftersøgnings- og redningsmissioner
Innovation in Carrier Aviation
Author: Thomas C. HonePublisher: Naval War College Newport Pape
ISBN: 9781884733857
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This study is about innovations in carrier aviation and the spread of those innovations from one navy to the navy of a close ally. The innovations are the angled flight deck ; the steam catapult ; and the mirror and lighted landing aid that enabled pilots to land jet aircraft on a carrier's short and narrow flight deck.
Author: Muriel Hawker