This textbook is based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. It explains all the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers; aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability, and feedback control. The chapters present real world applications and contain problems. Each year the Academy's students are placed with industry, NASA, and Air Force labs and test organizations, and the student reviews are outstanding, illustrating the quality of the author's approach.
A Review of Basic Aerodynamics; A Review of Basic Propulsion; Aircraft Performance; Aircraft Equations of Motion; Aircraft Static Stability; Linearizing the Equations of Motion; Aircraft Dynamic Stability; Classical Feedback Control; Aircraft Stability/Control Augmentation; Special Topics; Appendices.
