Basic principles of aircraft flight

Some boys in my class show great interest in aircraft flight. There are only a handful of reference books written in Chinese. I came across one written in plain English last year in public libraries. The title of the book is

‘Aircraft flight : a description of the physical principles of aircraft flight’ and is co-authored by R.H. Barnard, D.R. Philpott.

The call number of the book is 629.1323BAR

The following paragraphs are the brief description of the book. Hope you find them useful.

Aircraft Flight:A description of the physical principles of aircraft flight 3rd Edition - Paper

Description

The first edition of Aircraft Flight, published in 1989 broke new ground in the field of technical aviation literature by providing accurate physical, rather than mathematical, descriptions of the principles of aircraft flight.

The book has subsequently established itself as a popular and respected introduction to the study of aeronautics, and is now on the recommended reading lists for aerospace and aeronautical engineering courses at a large number of Universities and Colleges around the world.

In this third edition, the text and illustrations have been updated, and some important improvements have been incorporated. As an aid to student project work, the characteristics of three representative types of aerofoil section have been added in a new appendix.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Lift 2. Wings 3. The Boundary layer and its control 4. Drag 5. High Speed Flow 6. Trust and Propulsion 7. Performance 8. Supersonic Aircraft 9. Transonic Aircraft 10. Aircraft Control 11. Static Stability 12. Dynamic Stability 13. Take-off and Landing 14. Structural Influences Appendix References Index