Theory and Practice of Aircraft Performance

Series Preface

The field of aerospace is multidisciplinary and wide‐ranging, covering a large variety of products, disciplines and domains, not merely in engineering but in many related supporting activities. These combine to enable the aerospace industry to produce innovative and technologically advanced vehicles. The wealth of knowledge and experience that has been gained by expert practitioners in the various aerospace fields needs to be passed onto others working in the industry, including those just entering from university.

The Aerospace Series aims to be a practical, topical and relevant series of books aimed at people working in the aerospace industry, including engineering professionals and operators, engineers in academia, and allied professions such as commercial and legal executives. The range of topics is intended to be wide‐ranging, covering design and development, manufacture, operation and support of aircraft, as well as topics such as infrastructure operations and current advances in research and technology.

Aircraft performance concerns the prediction of how well an aircraft functions throughout its operation, and provides most of the key considerations for aircraft design, leading to the configurations and geometries that we see in today’s modern aircraft. The topic is inherently multidisciplinary, requiring not only an understanding of a wide range of individual disciplines such as aerodynamics, flight mechanics, power plant, loads, and so on, but also ...