Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control

by Bernard Etkin

Designed to prepare students to become aeronautical engineers who can face new and challenging situations. Retaining the same philosophy as the two preceding editions, this update emphasizes basic principles rooted in the physics of flight, essential analytical techniques along with typical stability and control realities. In keeping with current industry practice, flight equations are presented in dimensional state-vector form. The chapter on closed-loop control has been greatly expanded with details on automatic flight control systems. Uses a real jet transport (the Boeing 747) for many numerical and worked-out examples.

Genres: Textbooks, Engineering

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[justsomeguy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was thin and small in size, large in impact. This class was hard for many undergraduates. I enjoyed imagining the isolated systems of equations as they flew through the air. The text cuts straight to the point, heavy on equations, light on prose, and works well for computer modeling, with included hard-to-find aircraft parameters in the appendix.