Computational Flight Dynamics (AIAA Education Series) Book

More than 100 illustrations and a five-program software package are combined in Computational Flight Dynamics, a detailed instructional kit illustrating digital solutions to problems in aircraft dynamic stability, control, and flight performance. Busy aerospace engineers, scientists, and graduate students with a working knowledge of FORTRAN will learn-in a step-by-step format-several effective programming techniques in a range of flight dynamics areas. Of the five programs included, FLIGHT and LOCUS-both previously used in flight control system designs for two production unmanned air vehicles-provide the necessary tools for studying uncontrolled aircraft motions, stability, and the design of automatic flight control systems. A DOS or Windows(tm) environment is required for the FORTRAN programs included on the 3.5-inch diskette, which contains source programs, run (input) files, and database files. Access to a compiler for FORTRAN 77 or 90 is also necessary.Read More