The authors, widely known for their contributions to airplane design and development, have captured both the technological progress and the excitement of this important facet of aviation. This updated edition includes new developments in propulsion-controlled aircraft, fly-by-wire technology, redundancy management, applications, and safety. It is profusely illustrated with photographs and figures, and includes brief biographies of noted stability and control figures along with a core bibliography.
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"This is a splendid book...How often do you find an erudite treatise that is truly un-put-downable? I learned things from this book about aircraft ranging from Gossamer Condor to the SR-71." Aerospace
"The volume has much good information in it...a useful reference work." Isis
"Every student or researcher working on Stability and Control and Flight Mechanics should make the effort to read and understand the material in this book; the benefit to their appeciation of the demanding nature of aeronautical engineering will be substatial." The Aeronautical Journal, Donal McLean
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From the early machines to todayas sophisticated aircraft, stability and control have always been crucial considerations. In this second edition, Abzug and Larrabee again forge through the history of aviation technologies to present an informal history of the personalities and the events, the art and the science of airplane stability and control. The book includes never-before-available impressions of those active in the field, from pre-Wright brothers airplane and glider builders through to contemporary aircraft designers. Arranged thematically, the book deals with early developments, research centers, the effects of power on stability and control, the discovery of inertial coupling, the challenge of stealth aerodynamics, a look toward the future, and much more. It is profusely illustrated with photographs and figures, and includes brief biographies of noted stability and control figures along with a core bibliography. Professionals, students, and aviation enthusiasts alike will appreciate this readable history of airplane stability and control.
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This review is from: Airplane Stability and Control: A History of the Technologies that Made Aviation Possible (Cambridge Aerospace Series) (Hardcover)
This is simply a "must have" book for anyone interested in the dynamics of aircraft, flight control, and evolution of the modern aircraft. Airplane Stability and Control can be read as an aviation history book, as a compendium of the technical problems that arose in the development of airplanes, and as a manual for solving these problems. The book is a beacon that guides the design of new aircraft; it is technical, complex, and deep, yet it rarely refers to equations. It adds a much-needed dimension to the study of aeronautical engineering, which is increasingly focused on mathematics and numerical methods.
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Excellent collection of lessons learned. Definitely a worthwhile reference to have on the shelf. Each chapter can stand alone, so read it cover to cover or just the chapters or sections that are meaningful to you.
It is a little lacking in the quantitative data.
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While scientists and mathematicians in the United States and Europe built the foundations of future advances by developing fundamental aeronautical theory, practical aeronautical designers invented and improved the airplane empirically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vehicle system identification, dynamic fuel slosh, airplane equations, stability augmenters, fuel slosh coupling, longitudinal control power, aeroelastic methods, springy tabs, rotary derivatives, vertical tail length, airplane flying qualities, phugoid period, elastic airplane, lateral control power, airplane stability, unstalled flight, torsional divergence, direct lift control, airplane maneuverability, command augmentation systems, coning tests, flying qualities research, linked tabs, time history calculations, flying qualities requirements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Air Force, North American, United States, Wright Field, Concluding Remarks, Gossamer Condor, Melvill Jones, Boeing Company, Dryden Flight Research Center, Systems Technology, Air Corps, General Dynamics, Managing Control Forces, Princeton University, Robert Gilruth, Hewitt Phillips, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Super Sabre, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Beech Model, Military Standard, The Elastic Airplane, Cal Tech, Douglas Aircraft Company New!
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While scientists and mathematicians in the United States and Europe built the foundations of future advances by developing fundamental aeronautical theory, practical aeronautical designers invented and improved the airplane empirically. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vehicle system identification, dynamic fuel slosh, airplane equations, stability augmenters, fuel slosh coupling, longitudinal control power, aeroelastic methods, springy tabs, rotary derivatives, vertical tail length, airplane flying qualities, phugoid period, elastic airplane, lateral control power, airplane stability, unstalled flight, torsional divergence, direct lift control, airplane maneuverability, command augmentation systems, coning tests, flying qualities research, linked tabs, time history calculations, flying qualities requirements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Air Force, North American, United States, Wright Field, Concluding Remarks, Gossamer Condor, Melvill Jones, Boeing Company, Dryden Flight Research Center, Systems Technology, Air Corps, General Dynamics, Managing Control Forces, Princeton University, Robert Gilruth, Hewitt Phillips, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Super Sabre, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Beech Model, Military Standard, The Elastic Airplane, Cal Tech, Douglas Aircraft Company New!
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- Space Shuttle (What About Series) by Ron Cave on 6 pages
- Aircraft Dynamics and Automatic Control by Duane McRuer on 6 pages
- Advances In Aircraft Flight Control (Series in Systems and Control) by M B Tischler on 5 pages
- AIRCRAFT HANDLING QUALITIES by Hodgkinson on page 18, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theoretical Aerodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) by L. M. Milne-Thomson on page 274, page 276, and Back Matter
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- Stability and Control of Conventional and Unconventional Aircraft Configurations: A Generic Approach by Bernd Chudoba on 4 pages
- Low-Speed Aerodynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Joseph Katz in Front Matter
- Introduction to Aircraft Design (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by John P. Fielding in Front Matter
- Automated Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Dr Wigbert Fehse in Front Matter
- Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach (Cambridge Aerospace Series) by Marcel J. Sidi in Front Matter
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