Understanding Flight

David F. Anderson, Scott Eberhardt

239 pages, parution le 01/06/2001

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Résumé

Get to the heart of how planes fly.

Never before has it been so easy to grasp how planes fly! Of keen importance to pilots, essential to engineers, and intriguing even to the earthbound, the principles of flight are often parroted but widely misunderstood. Now you can be among those who truly get it. The simplest way to master an understanding of the science of flight. This enlightening book helps you bypass common distortions, misconceptions, and half-truths and genuinely understand how aeronautics works. This book gives you brain- and gut-level understanding of what gets you up there and keeps you up there!

Explains flight in simple, intuitive terms
Spares you misinformation and confusion—this book gets it right and tells it right
100 high-impact illustrations show you lift, propulsion, and design at work
Provides practical insights pilots can use for improved performance and safety
Demonstrates the why's and how's of wing shape, plane construction, flight testing, and high-speed flight
Written by pilots (one a physicist and the other a professor of aeronautics)
Perfect for beginning pilots

Contents

1. Introduction
2. How Airplanes Fly
3. Wings
4. Airplane Propulsion
5. High-Speed Flight
6. Performance
7. Flight Testing
8. The Rest of the Airplane
9. Appendices

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	David F. Anderson, Scott Eberhardt
Parution	01/06/2001
Nb. de pages	239
Format	18,5 x 23,3
Couverture	Broché
Poids	508g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071363778
ISBN13	978-0-07-136377-8