Aircraft Performance: Foundations to Frontiers

Aircraft Performance for Flight Planning: A Modern Approach provides a modern take on flight vehicle performance for undergraduate students being introduced to the topic for the first time as well as for graduate students requiring more advanced content. The book is comprised of three parts: Foundational Building Blocks for Aircraft Performance, Aircraft Performance and Mission Profile, and for graduate level students, Advanced Concepts and Generalized Performance Analyses. Focusing on...
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Aircraft Performance for Flight Planning: A Modern Approach provides a modern take on flight vehicle performance for undergraduate students being introduced to the topic for the first time as well as for graduate students requiring more advanced content. The book is comprised of three parts: Foundational Building Blocks for Aircraft Performance, Aircraft Performance and Mission Profile, and for graduate level students, Advanced Concepts and Generalized Performance Analyses. Focusing on flight planning as opposed to the more traditional focus on design, the authors have brought pilot input back into the discipline of performance analysis, incorporated computational content into the material, and developed a modern textbook that is particularly relevant for future flight vehicle concepts that are currently under development, and which feature unconventional, novel configurations for which the classical performance analysis approaches covered in other textbooks are insufficient.

* Presents material and concepts in increasing order of complexity, beginning with introductory concepts, approaches, and results with focus on engaging pedagogy and analytical results for undergraduate students, moving to more complex and generalized concepts and approaches for graduate students

* Takes a generalized energy-based approach to flight vehicle performance, starting with classical fixed-wing / tube-and-wing configurations, followed by coverage of performance concepts applicable to all types of flight vehicles, including performance analysis approaches for hybrid-electric propulsion systems

* Features a modern approach with computational content, including illustrations and exercises that involve numerical implementation (coding), rather than just formula-based problem solving.

* Brings pilot input back into the discipline of performance analysis