| Self-Protective Measures to Enhance Airlift Operations in Hostile Environments By John A. Skorupa * Publisher: University Press of the Pacific * Number Of Pages: 204 * Publication Date: 2003-08 * ISBN / ASIN: 1410207919 Book Description: The national strategy of defending US interests as far from North America as possible has elevated airlift's importance in national security to a critical level. The author's unique perspective on this topic comes from having spent 19 years as a pilot in transports, as an aeronautical engineer developing and acquiring combat aircraft, as a staff officer at the Military Airlift Command dealing with daily operational issues, and as a research fellow studying the subject at great length. Winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation's 1988 Colonel James Cannell Memorial Award 10185 KB ~~~ Jet Engines: Fundamentals of Theory, Design and Operation 1997-12 Broaden your knowledge of jet engine technology and its associated subjects. This is a technically comprehensive study of the components that constitute a gas turbine aero-engine and examines each part's design and function in practice. Concentrates on turbojet, turboprop and turbofan designs, and is applicable to civilian and military usage. Contains an overview of the main design types and fundamentals, and looks at air intakes, compressors, turbines and exhaust systems in great detail. Publisher: Zenith Press Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1997-12-21 Sales Rank: 349152 ISBN / ASIN: 0760304599 EAN: 9780760304594 Binding: Hardcover Manufacturer: Zenith Press Studio: Zenith Press ~~~ Understanding Flight By David Anderson, Scott Eberhardt, * Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional * Number Of Pages: 320 * Publication Date: 2000-12-06 * ISBN / ASIN: 0071363777 Book Description: The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: those who fly. Debunks long-rooted misconceptions and offers a clear, minimal-math presentation that starts with how airplanes fly and goes on to clarify a diverse range of topics, such as design, propulsion, performance, high-speed flight, and flight testing. Not-to-be missed insights for pilots, instructors, flight students, aeronautical engineering students, and flight enthusiasts 1.77 MB Rar'd PDF ~~~ Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2004-2005 (Jane's All the World's Aircraft) (Jane's All the World's Aircraft) By * Publisher: Jane's Information Group * Number Of Pages: 860 * Publication Date: 2004-06 * ISBN / ASIN: 0710626142 ~~~ By Jack D. Mattingly, William H. Heiser, David T. Pratt, * Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast * Number Of Pages: 692 * Publication Date: 2002-12 * ISBN / ASIN: 1563475383 Book Description: The text presents a complete and realistic aircraft engine design experience. From the request for proposal for a new aircraft to the final engine layout, the book provides the concepts and procedures required for the entire process. It is a significantly expanded and modernized version of the best-selling first edition that emphasizes recent developments impacting engine design such as theta break/throttle ratio, life management, controls, and stealth. The key steps of the process are detailed in 10 chapters that encompass aircraft constraint analysis, aircraft mission analysis, engine parametric (design point) analysis, engine performance (off-design) analysis, engine installation drag and sizing, and the design of inlets, fans, compressors, main combustors, turbines, afterburners, and exhaust nozzles. The AEDsys software that accompanies the text provides comprehensive computational support for every design step. The software has been carefully integrated with the text to enhance both the learning process and productivity, and allows effortless transfer between British engineering and SI units. The AEDsys software is furnished on CD-ROM and runs in the Windows operating system on PC-compatible systems. A user?s manual is provided with the software, along with the complete data files used for the Air-to-Air Fighter and Global Range Airlifter design examples of the book ~~~ Air Engines: The History, Science, and Reality of the Perfect Engine By Theodor Finkelstein, Allan J. Organ, * Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers * Number Of Pages: 268 * Publication Date: 2001-09-01 * ISBN / ASIN: 0791801713 Review: An excellent tretise on the innovations in and challenges facing stirling engines I had spent the past several years informally studying Stirling engines, and this book vastly improved my understanding of the workings of this kind of engine in the course of a week. Stirling engines are known for their great efficiency, but the one historic difficulty preventing the widespread deployment of these engines is power density. (Stirling engines tend to be far larger than other less efficient engines of the same power output, so much so as to have been impractical for many applications. . . until now) The challenges to the development of a power dense Stirling engine are examined one at a time, and explained in both common terms, as well as formulas and equations, though admittedly, some of the text was rather hard to understand without a great deal of effort. This is understandable; this book is, after all, aimed at engineers PDF | 4.6 Mb ~~~ Spacecraft Dynamics By Thomas R. Kane * Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College * Number Of Pages: 436 * Publication Date: 1981-12 * ISBN / ASIN: 0070378436 Password: none Filesize: 61,9 ~~~ Analyses of Aircraft Responses to Atmospheric Turbulence By Willem Van Staveren * Publisher: Delft Univ Pr * Number Of Pages: 502 * Publication Date: 2003-12 * ISBN / ASIN: 9040724539 Book Description: This is a Ph.D. dissertation. The response of aircraft to stochastic atmospheric turbulence plays an important role in, for example, aircraft design (load calculations) and flight simulation (handling qualities research and pilot training). In order to simulate these aircraft responses, an accurate mathematical model is required. Two classical models will be discussed in this thesis that is the Delft University of Technology (DUT) model and the Four Point Aircraft (FPA) model. Although they are well established, their fidelity remains obscure. The cause lies in one of the requirements for system identification; it has always been necessary to relate inputs to outputs to determine, or identify, system dynamic characteristics. From experiments, using both the measured input and the measured output, a mathematical model of any system can be obtained. When considering an input-output system such as an aircraft subjected to stochastic atmospheric turbulence, a major problem emerges. During flight tests, no practical difficulty arises measuring the aircraft-system's outputs, such as the angle- of-attack, the pitch-angle, the roll-angle, etc. However, a huge problem arises when the input to the aircraft-system is considered; this input is stochastic atmospheric turbulence in this thesis. Currently, it still remains extremely difficult to identify the entire flowfield around an aircraft's geometry subjected to a turbulent field of flow; an infinite amount of sensors would be required to identify the atmospheric turbulence velocity component's distribution (the input) over it. As a consequence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to identify atmospheric turbulence models from flight tests PDF ّ~ Size: 24 MB ~~~ The Dynamics of Flight: Equations By Jean-Luc Boiffier * Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc * Number Of Pages: 400 * Publication Date: 1998-08 * ISBN / ASIN: 0471967378 Book Description: The first of three volumes on the theory and practice of flight dynamics. Volume 1 describes the equations for the general case of a spherical rotating earth, which is then evaluated by examination of the flat, fixed earth, and presents equations designed to solve practical problems encountered by aeronautical engineers Size: 16.02 MB ~~~ Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls: Part 2 By Jan Roskam * Publisher: Darcorporation * Number Of Pages: 416 * Publication Date: 2003-01 * ISBN / ASIN: 1884885187 This is a book written in a deliberately difficult style. Notation used for equations of motion and stability derivatives is non-standard. There is little in the way of solved examples that can illustrate the basic principles to a student. A reader easily gets lost in the myriad of confusing mathematical details, without grasping the physical fundamentals. Not a very useful textbook in an introductory course on flight dynamics and controls. ~~~ Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion/Book and Disk (Aiaa Education) By William H. Heiser, David T. Pratt, Daniel H. Daley, Unmeel B. Mehta, * Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast * Number Of Pages: 587 * Publication Date: 1993-09 * ISBN / ASIN: 1563470357 The next great leap for jet propulsion will be to power-sustained, efficient flight through the atmosphere. Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion presents the first comprehensive, unified introduction to all elements of the scramjet engine that will make this feat possible. Developed through course work at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and supported through funding by the NASP program and Wright Laboratory, the text emphasizes fundamental principles, guiding concepts, and analytical derivations and numerical examples having clear, useful, insightful results. Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion is completely self- contained, and comes with HAP software, an extensive array of PC-based, user-friendly computer programs that enable the student to reproduce all results. Based on a great deal of original material, the text includes over 200 figures, five color plates, and 130 homework examples. Physical quantities are expressed in English and SI units throughout ~~~ Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics (Aiaa Education Series) By John J. Bertin * Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast * Number Of Pages: 608 * Publication Date: 1993-09 * ISBN / ASIN: 1563470365 The first four chapters present general information characterizing hypersonic flows, discuss numerical formulations of varying degrees of rigor in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes, and discuss the strengths and limitations of the various types of hypersonic experimentation. Other chapters cover the stagnation-region flowfield, the inviscid flowfield, the boundary layer, the aerodynamic forces and moments, viscous/inviscid interactions and shock/shock interactions, and a review of aerothermodynamics phenomena and their role in the design of a hypersonic vehicle. Sample exercises and homework problems are presented throughout the text ~~~ Aircraft Propulsion Systems Technology and Design (Aiaa Education Series) * Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast * Number Of Pages: 528 * Publication Date: 1989-09 * ISBN / ASIN: 093040324X A comprehensive coverage of the key physical concepts that govern gas turbine propulsion systems. Topics include combustion technology, engine/airplane performance matching, inlets and inlet/engine integration, variable convergent/divergent nozzle aerodynamics, and more ~~~ Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students 'Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students' provides a completely self contained course in aircraft structures, which includes discussion on the fundamentals of elasticity and aircraft structural analysis, as well as the associated topics of airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Although much of the basic material is timeless, the author has updated the text throughout, including new material on areas that have developed since the last edition - in both educational and technological terms. As well as extensive revisions, the new edition includes a solutions manual for all end of chapter problems to accompany the text The expansion of aviation makes aircraft structures an increasingly important topic at undergraduate level. Since its original publication in 1972, this book has become the 'bible' for aircraft structures Extra worked examples and problems. Latest materials in aircraft construction. Airframe loads produced by manoeuvring Download Details 19.5MB ~~~ Theory and Design of Air Cushion Craft ISBN: 0340676507 Author: Liang Yun / Alan Bliault Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Edition: (May 26, 2000) Hardcover: 632 pages URL: /http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=songstech-20&path=ASIN%2F0340676507 This definitive text describes the theory and design both of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) and Surface Effect Ships (SES). It begins by introducing hovercraft types and their development and application throughout the world in the last three decades, before going on to discuss the theoretical aspects of ACV and SES craft covering their hovering performance, dynamic trim over calm water, resistance, stability, manoeuvrability, skirt configuration and analysis of forces acting on the skirts, ACV and SES seakeeping, and the methodology of scaling aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces acting on the ACV/SES from model test data. The latter chapters describe a design methodology, including design criteria and standard methods for estimating craft performance, lift system design, skirt design, hull structure, propulsion systems and power unit selection. Much technical information, data, and references to further work on hovercraft and SES design is provided. The book will be a useful reference to engineers, technicians, teachers, students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), operators etc. who are involved in ACV/SES research, design, construction and operation. Guides the reader on how to perform machinery and systems selection within ACV and SES overall design For teachers, students (both at under- and post-graduate level), engineers and technicians involved in ACV/SES ~~~ Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge : FAA-H-8083-25, December 2003 (FAA Handbooks series) Required reading for pilots for more than 25 years, this handbook is used extensively as a reference source for the FAA Knowledge Exams and provides information for training and guiding student pilots. Including basic knowledge that is essential for all pilots, from beginning students to those pursuing more advanced pilot certificates, it introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress through their pilot training. Principles of flight, aircraft and engine structures and systems, weight/balance and performance calculations, charts and navigation, weather theory, reports, forecasts, and flight manuals are among the subjects covered. Formerly published as an Advisory Circular (AC 61-23C), this new edition is now listed as an official FAA Handbook (#FAA-H-8083-25). U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Flight Standards Service 2003 PDF, 353 pages, 19 megabytes ~~~ The Avionics Handbook (Electrical Engineering Handbook) By * Publisher: CRC * Number Of Pages: 576 * Publication Date: 2000-12-20 * ISBN / ASIN: 084938348X Book Description: The Avionics Handbook presents complete coverage of avionics, from the building blocks of a typical system through the process used in designing, building, and testing an avionics system. It comprises chapters contributed by top practitioners in the field, written for working engineers, their managers, and others who need up-to-date information on virtually any aspect of avionics ~~~ Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance Author: Jan Roskam C. T. Lan Publisher: Darcorporation Publication Date: 2000-12 Number Of Pages: 547 ~~~ Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems An Introduction (Spie Press Monograph) The book examines radar's role within the system when carrying out is assigned missions, showing the possibilities of radar as well as its limitations. Finally, given the changing operational requirements and the potential opened up by modern technological developments. Book Info A tool for engineers and technicians working in industry and radar research and developing, reviewing the status of airborne and spaceborne radar systems. Includes the history, main principles, functions, modes and properties of airborne and spaceborne radar. Features extensive illustrations, including drawings, photos, charts and SAR images ~~~ Aeronautical Engineer's Data Book By Cliff Matthews * Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann * Number Of Pages: 288 * Publication Date: 2001-11-21 * ISBN / ASIN: 0750651253 This is an essential handy guide containing useful up to date information regularly needed by the student or practising engineer Covering all aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides quick access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of information for further in-depth information. Quick reference to essential data Most up to date information available ~~~ Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Fifth Edition By E. L. Houghton, P. W. Carpenter, * Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann * Number Of Pages: 608 * Publication Date: 2001-09-15 * ISBN / ASIN: 0750651113 Book Description: Already established as the leading course text on aerodynamics, Aerodynamics for Engineering Students has been revised to include the latest developments in flow control and boundary layers, and their influence on modern wing design, as well as introducing recent advances in the understanding of fundamental fluid dynamics. Computational methods have been expanded and updated to reflect the modern approaches to aerodynamic design and research in the aeronautical industry and elsewhere, and the structure of the text has been developed to reflect current course requirements ~~~ Aircraft Design Projects: For Engineering Students By Lloyd R. Jenkinson, Jim Marchman, * Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann * Number Of Pages: 400 * Publication Date: 2003-05 * ISBN / ASIN: 0750657723 Book Description: Written with students of aerospace or aeronautical engineering firmly in mind, this is a practical and wide-ranging book that draws together the various theoretical elements of aircraft design - structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, control and others - and guides the reader in applying them in practice. Based on a range of detailed real-life aircraft design projects, including military training, commercial and concept aircraft, the experienced UK and US based authors present engineering students with an essential toolkit and reference to support their own project work. All aircraft projects are unique and it is impossible to provide a template for the work involved in the design process. However, with the knowledge of the steps in the initial design process and of previous experience from similar projects, students will be freer to concentrate on the innovative and analytical aspects of their course project. The authors bring a unique combination of perspectives and experience to this text. It reflects both British and American academic practices in teaching aircraft design. Lloyd Jenkinson has taught aircraft design at both Loughborough and Southampton universities in the UK and Jim Marchman has taught both aircraft and spacecraft design at Virginia Tech in the US. |
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