Aircraft safety is a function of several parameters including flight stability and control. An air vehicle must be stable if it is to remain in flight. Moreover, it must be controllable as well as trimmable. This book delivers the fundamental concepts of stability and control, as well as their assoc
Stability and Control. Flight Testing
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Year
- 1959
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 503
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content:
FLIGHT TEST MANUAL, Page i
Copyright, Page ii
THE AGARD FLIGHT TEST PANEL, Page iii
RECORD OF REVISION, Page iv
Front Matter, Page v
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, Page vi, COURTLAND D. PERKINS
PREFACE, Page vii, THEODORE VON KARMAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Page viii, Courtland D. Perkins
Contributing Authors, Page ix
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION, Pages 1-2,1:1-1:12, Courtland D. Perkins
CHAPTER 2 - AIRPLANE MOTIONS, Pages 1-5,2:1-2:17, Edward Seckel
CHAPTER 3 - STATIC LONGITUDINAL STABILITY AND CONTROL, Pages 1-4,3:1-3:29, Courtland D. Perkins
CHAPTER 4 - FLIGHT TESTING AIRCRAFT FOR LONGITUDINAL MANEUVERING CHARACTERISTICS, Pages 1-4,4:1-4:31, Harold I. Johnson
CHAPTER 5 - LATERAL AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THE MEASUREMENT OF AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS IN STEADY ASYMMETRIC FLIGHT AND IN FLIGHT ON ASYMMETRIC POWER, Pages 1-8,5:1-5:49, H.J. van der Maas
CHAPTER 6 - FLIGHT TECHNIQUES USED TO DETERMINE ADEQUACY OF LATERAL CONTROL, Pages 1-6,6:1-6:45, Paul A. Hunter
CHAPTER 7 - STALLING AND THE MEASUREMENT OF MAXIMUM LIFT, Pages 1-3,7:1-7:8, D. Lean
CHAPTER 8 - SPINNING, Pages 1-4,8:1-8:34, T.H. Kerr, M. Shorr
CHAPTER 9 - HIGH SPEED STABILITY AND CONTROL PROBLEMS, Pages 1-6,9:1-9:36, Malcolm J. Abzug
CHAPTER 10 - DYNAMIC RESPONSE TECHNIQUES, Pages 1-2,10:1-10:34, W.O. Breuhaus, L. Segel
CHAPTER 11 - MEASUREMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF FLIGHT TEST DATA FOR DYNAMIC STABILITY AND CONTROL, Pages 1-3,11:1-11:95, C.L. Muzzey, E.A. Kidd
CHAPTER 12 - ROUTINE HANDLING TESTS FOR HELICOPTERS, Pages 1-2,12:1-12:17, W.G. Jennings, D.A. Wilkinson
CHAPTER 13 - STUDY OF THE HANDLING CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTERS BY HARMONIC METHODS, Pages 1-3,13:1-13:14, F.L. Legrand, G. Petit
CHAPTER 14 - A SURVEY OF FLIGHT FLUTTER TESTING TECHNIQUES, Pages 1-3,14:1-14:18, A.J. Marx
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