General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures - Grand Format

Find the right answer the first time with this practical handbook of preliminary aircraft design. Written by an engineer with close to 20 years of design experience, General Aviation Aircraft Design : Applied Methods and Procedures provides the practicing engineer with a handbook that serves as the first source for finding answers to many aircraft design questions. Broad and deep in coverage, it is intended for practicing engineers, aerospace engineering students, mathematically astute amateur aircraft designers, and anyone interested in aircraft design.
Key Features of General Aviation Aircraft Design : organized by articles and structured in an "equation/derivation/solved example" format for easily accessible content ; contains over 800 illustrations, graphs, and photographs (and 150 tables) to help visualize and explain even the most challenging concepts ; many numerical examples involve actual aircraft, allowing the reader to evaluate the accuracy of prediction methods ; contains high-interest topics not found in other texts (including optimization of horizontal and vertical tail surfaces to minimize drag, effective formulation of propeller thrust, sizing of lifting surfaces to ensure proper stability, numerical performance methods, and common faults and fixes in aircraft design), making it a complete source for preliminary aircraft design ; provides a unique safely-oriented design checklist based on real industry experience ; discusses advantages and disadvantages of using computational tools during the design proces, provides the reader with a umber of computer codes written in VBA and intended for use with Microsoft Excel ; features detailed summaries of design options that help the designer understand the pros and cons of each selected aerodynamic solution ; includes three case studies demonstrating applications to business jets, general aviation aircraft, and UAV's.