Aircraft Performance and Design
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Author(s): J. Anderson, Jr
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:  0 07 001971 1
Format: hardback
  580pp
Price: £73.99
Review Date: May 23, 2000
Review: This book provides the reader with an integrated approach to aircraft performance and design. Intended as a text for the fist course in airplane performance, Dr. Anderson's coverage of design philosophy and methodology conveys how working engineers achieve performance standards. Part I of the book provides the needed background material, including overviews of aerodynamics and propulsion, and historical information. Part II deals with static and accelerated aircraft performance and equations of motion, with both graphical and analytical solution techniques. "Design Cameos" are included in the first two parts to emphasise the role and importance of engineering design techniques. Part III covers design methodologies, illustrated by historical examples throughout, and can be used for the first part of a senior design course.