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Introduction to Flight,5E (SIE)

John D. Anderson, Jr., University of Maryland--College Park

Book Features

This book on Introduction to Flight offers the most readable and up-to-date overview of aeronautical and aerospace engineering for students. It blends history and biography with discussion of engineering concepts, and demonstrates the development of flight through this perspective. The essentials of aerodynamics, stability and control, propulsion, and other major topics are presented in an easily accessible manner, with numerous practical examples, summaries, and chapter problems.

Key Features :

• Coverage of new technologies like UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UCAVs (uninhabited combat aerial vehicles)

• Expanded coverage of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in aircraft design.

• Updated coverage of space flight vehicles and rocket staging.

• Coverage of space flight vehicles, supersonic airplanes, trajectories, unmanned aircraft, and rocket staging.

• Improved learning features, including updated road maps and preview boxes, new data, illustrations, aircraft examples, and historical highlights.

Pedagogical features:

• A total of 274 problems are present in the book:

• Solved examples: 96

• Exercise problems: 178

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