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The text presents a complete and realistic aircraftengine design experience. From the request for proposal for a newaircraft to the final engine layout, the book provides the conceptsand procedures required for the entire process. It is a significantlyexpanded and modernized version of the best-selling first edition thatemphasizes recent developments impacting engine design such as thetabreak/throttle ratio, life management, controls, and stealth. The keysteps of the process are detailed in 10 chapters that encompassaircraft constraint analysis, aircraft mission analysis, engineparametric (design point) analysis, engine performance (off-design)analysis, engine installation drag and sizing, and the design ofinlets, fans, compressors, main combustors, turbines, afterburners,and exhaust nozzles.

The AEDsys software that accompanies the text provides comprehensivecomputational support for every design step. The software has beencarefully integrated with the text to enhance both the learningprocess and productivity, and allows effortless transfer betweenBritish engineering and SI units. The AEDsys software is furnished onCD-ROM and runs in the Windows operating system on PC-compatiblesystems. A user?s manual is provided with the software, along with thecomplete data files used for the Air-to-Air Fighter and Global RangeAirlifter design examples of the book. ... Read more

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Comprehensive Textbook

This is one of the best books on the market on aircraft engine design for the professional engine designer and aeronautical engineer specialising on this subject. The book is well organized and well written with clear and easy to follow explanations.

The book methodically, step-by-step guides the reader through the engine design process from request for proposals for a new aircraft to the final engine layout.
The author clearly presents the concepts, principles and design issues of modern gas turbine engines. The book has great explanations, diagrams and figures that the reader will find useful and helpful.

The book comes with the AEDsys software on COD-ROM that gives in depth computational support for every design step.

All-in-all, a fantastic book that is well recommended to the target audience.

Simply the best introductory book on aircraft engine design
A clearly-written, logically-organized overview of aircraft jet engine design including thermodynamics, cycle analysis, and component design and evaluation. Includes an overview of how jet engine design fits into theoverall process of aircraft design. ... Read more

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Commissioned on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary, here is the fascinating historical account of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics -- and its predecessor organizations, the American Rocket Society and The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences -- and the significant contributions each has made to the evolution of flight. From the early struggles to create and distinguish aeronautics as a distinct profession, through the technological necessities brought on by two world wars, to the incredible advances spawned by the Space Age, this narrative covers it all in a highly readable, thoroughly researched way. Reading like an aeronautical and astronautical "who’s who," this is also the amazing story of the organizations’ founders, leaders and members -- visionary individuals and dedicated engineers advancing theories and technologies in a profession that has forever changed society and shaped everyday life as we know it. ... Read more

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From the Early Days of Rockets
By the 1930's the art of flying had become fairly commonplace. The art of rocketry was just beginning. And when there's any question, form an association for like minded people to get together. The results were several: The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences and the American Rocket Society were formed in 1930 and 1932.
From here came the early experimentors who helped to put the field into the public's eye. Here were the people who began the early work to design rocket engines. For instance there was James Wyld. He bagan designing a rocket engine with regenerative cooling, circulating the propellent around the engine to keep it from melting. His engine became a series of engines, eventually a company Reaction Motors Inc. A few years later an engine from RMI powered the Bell X-1 with Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier. in 1958 RMI merged with Thiokol who builds the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle program.

This is a fascinating book, filled with the names of people who did a lot to bring about the world we live in today. Dr. Crouch, a senior curator at the National Air and Space Museum has a writing style that makes these days come alive. ... Read more

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Display systems are the vital indicators that monitor the various avionics, environmental, and electronic systems that keep aircraft in the air. Aircraft Display Systems introduces the reader to the means by which information is presented to the crew, enabling them to carry out their tasks safely and successfully.

Aircraft Display Systems provides an assessment of the current and potential future information needs in civil and military flight decks. It also offers the reader an appreciation of the technologies available to the display engineer in order to provide solutions that meet those needs. This volume will be an invaluable source of information to all those involved in aircraft design, build, testing, and investigation.

Copublished with Professional Engineering Publishing. ... Read more

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"Fundamentals of Hybrid Rocket Combustion and Propulsion" is the first text to offer a comprehensive treatment of hybrid rockets. In this book, editors have pooled together some of the most respected minds in the field, each providing their very special insight and expertise to the text. The content is therefore as up-to-date as it is broad. Each chapter offers an expert account of every aspect of hybrid rocket propulsion, including fundamental aspects of hybrid combustion, numerical and theoretical approaches, and various applications. All chapters are enhanced with more than 25 to 35 graphical elements - including tables, figures and photographs. Making for an easy and informative read, this book is a must-have resource for anyone currently working in or studying rocket propulsion. ... Read more

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THE work on Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
An outstanding assembly of work in this field. Deeply technical, this book covers every aspect of the art from science to speculation.

Highly recommended for University Libraries, Engineering Libraries and for students of reaction propulsion. ... Read more

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Not Bad
This book published in January 2006 by NASA as NASA Special Publication NASA SP-2006-4317 examines the history of one of the most powerful nuclear test reactors in the US and the only nuclear facility ever built by NASA, the Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, Ohio.When it became operational in 1963, this facility supported basic research for NASA's nuclear rocket program (NERVA).After only a decade of research, the government shut down the Plum Brook station before many of its experiments could be completed.Even the valiant attempt to use the reactor as an environmental analysis tool failed, and the facility was eventually closed.The reactors were unused for nearly 25 years at great cost to the taxpayers until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decommissioned the reactors and cleaned up the site.

As of May 2007, this book is still available from NASA for 27$
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Offering an introduction to the technology of composite materials as used in aeronautical design and structure, this text discusses differences between composites and metals, structural design procedures and in-service performance of those materials. ... Read more

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Upside down and backwards for a 100+ dollar book?
This book is actually bound upside down and backwards which is totally unacceptable for a 100+ dollar book.

Composite materials
This is a great reference on composite materials. It details almost everything that a person designing composites would need. It can be a bit bland to read, but it is full of valuable information. The only thing that it may lack is example calculations for the design of composite structures, but the theory is all there. ... Read more

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"This is the first full-length history of the X-43 project, written by the project historian at Dryden Flight Research Center. The project achieved the first in-flight testing of a scramjet engine, at speeds of nearly Mach 7 and Mach 10. Based on that exclusive access, the book illustrates ñ with real world examples ñ how groundbreaking technology unfolds. It details the development of the scramjet over the last half-century, providing the reader with an understanding of how external factors influence a new technology.
The book begins with the invention of the scramjet concept, and then details the projects of the 1960s through the 1980s and why they failed. It describes how the X-43 developed from these events, and follows the transformation from the original idea through hardware development and testing, the loss of the first vehicle, the return to flight, and the success of the second and third flights, and explains what was accomplished.
The book is written with the engineering student in mind, to provide an understanding of what they will experience once they join the work force.

This volume was produced in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration." ... Read more

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Fascinating insider's look at the X-43A program
Curtis Peebles wrote this book about the Hyper-X based on his unique vantage point as NASA project historian. Based on internal and published documents, interviews with project participants and his own personal observations, the book offers a detailed insider's view of one of the most exciting flight research projects in several decades. As befits a book published by an organization of aerospace engineering professionals, this book is highly technical in places. While not an engineering textbook, the author assumes that the reader has a good background in the full range of aerospace technologies. If the sentence "The computational-fluid-dynamics data were used to quantify the ground-to-flight scaling and unsteady-flow phenomena during the dynamic separation." fazes you, this book might not be for you.

For those who are undaunted by the required level of technical knowledge, the reader is rewarded with a detailed but readable story that begins with a background of scramjet research and continues on to Hyper-X design, manufacturing, integration and checkout, and flight operations. The first flight tumbled out of control shortly after release from the B-52, but the second and third flights successfully demonstrated scramjet-powered flight at Mach 6.83 and 9.68 respectively. Peebles provides an excellent description of all the missions as well as the mishap investigation.

There is an adequate number of good photographs in the book. Unfortunately the photographs are reproduced in black and white rather in color. A more significant omission is the absence of line drawings of the vehicles and its systems. At several points in the book, intricate mechanisms are described, but with no supporting illustrations it is difficult for even the intended audience to visualize the systems.

Quibbles about illustrations aside, this book is an outstanding recounting of an exciting and notable project. Those with a professional interest in modern flight research at the leading edge of technology will benefit greatly from reading it. ... Read more

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Structural Dynamics in Aeronautical Engineering is a comprehensive introduction to the modern methods of dynamic analysis of aeronautical structures. The text is particularly suitable for undergraduate students. For advanced students, the text provides numerous references on seminal work on structural dynamics that can be used for graduate level research.

The text represents carefully developed course materials, beginning with an introductory chapter on matrix algebra and methods for numerical computations, followed by a series of chapters discussing specific aeronautical applications. In this way, the student can be guided from the simple concept of a single-degree-of-freedom structural system to the more complex multidegree-of-freedom and continuous systems, including random vibrations, nonlinear systems, and aeroelastic phenomena. Among the various examples used in the text, the chapter on aeroelasticity of flight vehicles is particularly noteworthy with its clear presentation of the phenomena and its mathematical formulation for structural and aerodynamic loads. ... Read more

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This two-volume set explains the technology, performance, and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS). This set is the only one of its kind to present the history of GPS development, the basic concepts and theory of GPS, and the recent developments and numerous applications of GPS.

Each chapter is authored by an individual or group of individuals who are recognized as leaders in their area of GPS. These various viewpoints promote a thorough understanding of the system and make Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications the standard reference source for the Global Positioning System.

The two volumes are intended to be complementary. Volume I concentrates on fundamentals and Volume II on applications. It is recommended for university engineering students, practicing GPS engineers, applications engineers, and managers who wish to improve their understanding of the system. ... Read more

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Global Positioning System: Theory & Applications
This book is very technical so for the beginners in GPS i can not recommedyou to read this book. however, for scientific community, this book is"a must'

This is the essential treatment of GPS for engineers.
These volumes comprehensively treat the entire body of knowledge concerning GPS control, satellites, propagation, receivers, and use. There is an extensive discussion of GPS errors: raw, differential, corrected, and the encrypted precisepositioning service.

Unlike IEEE volumes that seem to be magazine articles jammed together, these volumes appear to use systematic, top-down architecture of the outline. Each section is a coherent explanation of the topic, without any unevenness in coverage.

The authors are well-known principals in this field. Spilker, for instance, has generated the most significant books in digital communications; modulation and demodulation being his specialty.

I found these volumes to be so impressive that I bought the set for my personal use. ... Read more

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In just 100 years, air and space exploration has progressed from a 12-second, 120-foot flight by two brothers to nearly 30 years of sustained flight by a spacecraft, now eight billion miles from Earth, traveling at almost 40,000 miles per hour.

Drawing on the extensive collection of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and personal collections, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book chronicles the most significant accomplishments in aerospace history over the past 100 years. In timeline fashion, you'll read brief excerpts from hundreds of news articles reporting on significant accomplishments in flight. Through brief introductory essays, you will learn what made each decade of flight most significant. Concluding essays by John D. Anderson Jr. and Roger D. Launius of the NASM look at what lies ahead. Foreword by A. Scott Crossfield.

The book was commissioned in celebration of the 100th anniversary of powered flight. Winter and van der Linden are both curators at the NASM, and authors of several acclaimed books on air and space history and the "Out of the Past" column published monthly in Aerospace America. ... Read more

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This work provides a clear, simple guide on performance, handling qualities and trouble-shooting. It tells pilots, and all who are interested in the finer points of aeronautics, how to heed and diagnose what aircraft say, before attempting to put them right. ... Read more

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Learn how to take a critical look an an aircraft design
A great semi-technical flight test guide.Part aircraft design guide, part novel, part flight test guide.Very similar to the aircraft design book by the same author.If you are looking for a step by step part 23 flight test guide, get Kemberlin's book.Then buy this one for another reason.This book, and Stinton's design book foster a critical approach to evaluating an aircraft design.The author shows the reader how to look at an aircraft and see what the issues might be even before the first flight is made.

Stinton's experience is unique amongst flight test and aircraft design authors.All homebuilts designed and flown in the UK must be flight tested.Stinton flew a great many of these aircraft.Some were fantastic designs.Others were not.it is this eclectic flight experience that sets him apart from other authors.I've read his design book and I own this book.I would say about 40% or more of the material is common between them.Both give a good understanding of how to look critically at a design.(a necessity when you've been hired to fly an aircraft that has absolutely no engineering analysis backing up the design)The design book is a bit better for light aircraft designers.The flight test book is a bit better for flight testers.I like them both.

This book also demonstrates low-budget flight test techniques as you won't find a instrumentation system in a replica Nieuport!

A nice guide...
A nice guide to aeronautical people from Darrol Stinton... Easy-to-read texts and lots information especially for junior and senior students of the field.... ... Read more

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Alasdair Sutherland is a qualified aerodynamicist who is able to explain the theory and practice of model aeronautics in a way in which everyone will understand.This book is essential reading for anyone who seriously considers themselves an informed modeller! ... Read more

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Spacecraft Mission Design, Second Edition takes the shortestroute to practical understanding of mission design. It focuses on the mostgeneral and most practical tools needed for the early spacecraft designstudies, including the principles of two-body motion, definition oforbits, orbital maneuvers, and central body observation. The use ofelementary mathematics makes this concise book ideal for collegeupperclassmen, graduates, and practicing engineers or managers. There areenough worked examples that one can be self-taught.

This second edition includes astronomical reference material, sections onconstellations, lunar trajectories, and cycler orbits. In addition, theORBWIN AIAA Mission Design software has been totally rewritten to make iteasier to use and compatible with Windows(tm).

ORBWIN allows you to proceed directly from understanding into professionalwork. It provides the accuracy, speed and convenience of personalcomputing. It defines all orbital elements for any orbit, provides theparameters at any orbital point, calculates spacecraft horizon, instrumentfield of view, orbit perturbations, ground track, planetary ephemeris,conversion of Julian days, oblique triangle solutions, and propellantweight projections. Any major body in the solar system may be used as thecentral body.

System Requirements: Windows 3.1 or higher; 1.4 Mb RAM ... Read more

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Excellent Practitioner's Reference
This is an excellent reference for aerospace engineer's to have on their desk.It summarizes all the necessary equations used in the design of spacecraft missions.It is not a "deep" book in the sense that there are minimal derivations.It is not a "tutorial" book, either, for anyone new to the field.For a tutorial and/or in depth mathematical derivations, look elsewhere (e.g., Battin:Introduction to the Mathematics and Methods of Astrodynamics or Vallado:Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications).However, the author is true to the goal he states in his preface:"I like a book that will fit in your briefcase."Despite being very thin, it has proven very useful for me in my work.I highly recommend it!(The ORBWIN software included with the book is also highly useful.) ... Read more

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This book focuses on an area of approximations in applied mathematics known as asymptotic analysis and perturbation theory and the relatively new and powerful technique - multiple scales theory - that rests on these theories. This new theory has been applied to a large number of diverse advanced engineering systems. Engineering analysts and designers will benefit from the simplicity of the concept and applicability of the method. This book is intended to bridge the gap between esoteric mathematical theory and practical, real world applications. The book is organized into six parts. Part I presents the basic concept, foundations, and the techniques of asymptotic analysis, perturbation theory, and multiple scales. Part II treats the important areas of linear systems by the multiple scales theory. Part III covers the basic ideas governing the dynamics of flight vehicles in the atmosphere and in space. Part IV discusses aircraft applications operating within the earth's atmosphere. Space flight applications are presented in Part V, and Part VI presents some related but separate topics in appendices. ... Read more