Understanding Performance Flight Testing: Kitplanes and Production Aircraft

by Hubert C. Smith

Overview

*Covers lightplane performance flight testing methods, measures, and computer applications
*Includes CD-ROM with sample spreadsheets containing equations to help readers perform their own flight tests
*Describes GPS (Global Positioning System) test method for airspeed calibration and rapid-wind camera method for takeoff performance

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071662604
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/18/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

HUBERT C. "SKIP" SMITH is Associate Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught aircraft design, performance and aerodynamics for 30 years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautical engineering from Penn State, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. An instrument-rated commercial pilot and flight instructor, he has been actively flying for over 45 years. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has won a number of national awards for outstanding educational achievements, and is the author of another McGraw-Hill book, THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO AERODYNAMICS.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Effects of Atmosphere. Chapter 2: General Flight Test Procedures. Chapter 3: Airspeed Calibration. Chapter 4: Stall Speed. Chapter 5: Takeoff Performance. Chapter 6: Climb Performance. Chapter 7: Cruise Performance. Chapter 8: Descent and Landing Performance. Chapter 9: Computer Methods. Chapter 10: Evaluating Modification Effects. Appendix A: Symbols, Conversion Factors, Data Sheet Appendix B: Performance Data Examples Bibliography Index