Flight Stability and Control

Aircraft safety is a function of several parameters including flight stability and control. An air vehicle must be stable if it is to remain in flight. Moreover, it must be controllable as well as trimmable. This book delivers the fundamental concepts of stability and control, as well as their associated areas. It explains airworthiness, dynamic and static stability, longitudinal, lateral, and directional control, flight measurement devices and sensors, and control surfaces which are necessary topics to be considered during the aircraft design process. This book is mainly focused on air vehicles' stability features and control capabilities. The aircraft addressed in this book is a rigid-body point mass object. Describing the complete motion of a rigid-body aircraft, this book covers equations of motion with six degrees of freedom (DOF)

Focused on the air vehicle's stability features and control capabilities Covers airworthiness, dynamic and static stability, longitudinal, lateral and directional control Delivers the aircraft design process

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Dr. Mohammad H. Sadraey is a professor in the School of Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Sadraey's main research interests are in aircraft design techniques, aircraft performance, flight dynamics, and design and automatic control of unmanned aircraft. He earned his M.Sc. in aerospace engineering in 1995 from RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, and his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas, Kansas, in 2006. Dr. Sadraey is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also listed in Who's Who in America. He has more than 26 years of professional experience in academia and industry. Dr. Sadraey is the author of seven other books, including Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach published by Wiley publications in 2012, and Aircraft Performance by CRC in 2016.

Inhalt
Preface.- Aircraft Equations.- Trim.- Longitudinal Stability.- Lateral-directional Stability.- Longitudinal Control.- latera;-Directional Control.-Problems.- References.