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Aircraft Performance & Design

Written by way of some of the most capable aerospace authors, this new booklet develops airplane functionality recommendations from first rules and applies then to actual airplanes. It additionally handle a philosophy of, and strategies for airplane layout. via constructing and discussing those topics in one textual content, the writer captures a level of synergism no longer present in different texts.

Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, Control and Navigation

House companies at the moment are figuring out that a lot of what has formerly been completed utilizing highly complicated and expensive unmarried platform projects-large unmanned and manned satellites (including the current overseas house Station) -can get replaced via a couple of smaller satellites networked jointly. the major problem of this process, specifically making sure the right kind formation flying of a number of craft, is the subject of this moment quantity in Elsevier's Astrodynamics sequence, Spacecraft Formation Flying: Dynamics, regulate and navigation.

Flight Dynamics Principles, Third Edition: A Linear Systems Approach to Aircraft Stability and Control (Aerospace Engineering)

The examine of flight dynamics calls for a radical realizing of the speculation of the soundness and regulate of plane, an appreciation of flight keep watch over structures and a grounding within the thought of automated regulate. Flight Dynamics ideas is a scholar centred textual content and offers quick access to all 3 subject matters in an built-in sleek structures context.

Advanced Composite Materials for Aerospace Engineering: Processing, Properties and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering)

Complex Composite fabrics for Aerospace Engineering: Processing, houses and purposes predominately makes a speciality of using complicated composite fabrics in aerospace engineering. It discusses either the fundamental and complex specifications of those fabrics for numerous purposes within the aerospace zone, and comprises discussions on the entire major varieties of advertisement composites which are reviewed and in comparison to these of metals.