PERFORMANCE, STABILITY, DYNAMICS, AND CONTROL OF AIRPLANES

Pamadi, a senior aerospace engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, provides integrated exposure to airplane performance, stability, dynamics, and flight control in this text for a two-semester course for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students in aerospace engineering. Basics of aerodynamics, aircraft performance, and static stability and control are reviewed, followed by coverage of equations of motion and estimation of stability derivatives, linear systems, closed-loop control, inertia coupling and spin, and stability and control problems at high angles of attack. Numerous solved examples illustrate theory and design methods, and exercise problems with answers are included. MATLAB tools are used for control design.