Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics

Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics
Author: Thomas R. Yechout
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2003
Genre: Aerodynamics
ISBN: 9781600860782

Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.

Store Separation

Store Separation
Author: Leon H. Schindel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1975
Genre: Aerodynamics, Supersonic
ISBN:

This AGARDograph is a systematic collection of experimental results for use of engineers and designers, limited to externally carried, unpowered, unguided stores. In the sections dealing with store trajectories, the physical situation is described, the method of solution is indicated, and the final results are presented. Emphasis is on store motion in traversing the parent aircraft flowfield, with criteria for safe separation and methods of calculating flight path. Windtunnel test techniques are described, and some information on flight testing given. Analytical treatment is compared with flight and tunnel results. There are brief mentions of ejection systems and the effect of stores on aircraft performance.