Basic Flight Mechanics Book

There is a new book available that covers most of the math needed to do the flight mechanics calculations:

David G. Hull,

"Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics",

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

Here is a sample:

"Flight mechanics is the application of Newton’s laws (F=ma and M=Iα) to the study of vehicle trajectories (performance), stability, and aerodynamic control.

There are two basic problems in airplane flight mechanics:

(1) given an airplane what are its performance, stability, and control characteristics? and

(2) given performance, stability, and control characteristics, what is the airplane?"

David G. Hull,

"Fundamentals of Airplane Flight Mechanics",

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+eng/book/978-3-540-46571-3

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