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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Why another aircraft design book? | |
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Topics | |
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The design process | |
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Why should we design a new aircraft? | |
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Market surveys | |
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Operator-derived specifications | |
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Specification for a close air support aircraft | |
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Airline specification for a 150-seat airliner | |
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Why is it that shape? - Civil aircraft | |
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Background | |
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Civil aircraft types | |
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Why is it that shape? - Other types | |
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Military aircraft types | |
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Rotorcraft and V/STOL aircraft | |
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What's under the skin? - Structure and propulsion | |
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General | |
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The structure | |
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Propulsion - the primary power system | |
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What's under the skin? - Airframe systems | |
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Secondary power systems | |
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The fuel system | |
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Furnishings | |
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Safety installations | |
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Landing gear installations | |
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What's under the skin? - Avionics, flight control and weapon systems | |
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Avionic systems | |
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Flight control systems | |
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Weapon systems | |
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Why do aircraft cost so much? | |
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General | |
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Acquisition costs (the costs of buying or acquiring the aircraft) | |
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Civil aircraft operating costs | |
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Military aircraft life-cycle costs | |
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The costs of reliability and maintainability | |
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What help can I get? - Bibliography and computer-aided design | |
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Aircraft design bibliography | |
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Relevant data sheets | |
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Computer design tools | |
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The integration of computer tools as part of concurrent engineering | |
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Classic computer-aided design systems | |
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The shape of things to come - Should the project continue? | |
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Introduction | |
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Conceptual design definition | |
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Comparison and choice | |
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Simple decision-making techniques | |
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Example of a conceptual aircraft design definition description - The Cranfield A-90 | |
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Progress of the A-90 project beyond the conceptual design stage | |
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What can go wrong? - Some lessons from past aircraft projects, and a glimpse into the future | |
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Introduction | |
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Aircraft that suffered from requirements that were too restrictive, too ambitious or were changed during development | |
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Projects that were overtaken by events | |
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A step too far or too soon? | |
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Some challenging future projects | |
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Conclusions | |
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Useful aircraft design data | |
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Introduction | |
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US/UK nomenclature | |
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UK and US/SI conversion tables and airspeed charts | |
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Aircraft leading data tables | |
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Power plant data | |
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Aerodynamic data | |
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Structures and materials data | |
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Landing gear data | |
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Aircraft interior data | |
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Aircraft weapons | |
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A-90 parametric study. Example - the A-90 500-seat airliner | |
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Introduction | |
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Landing field distance | |
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Take-off field length | |
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Second segment climb | |
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Missed approach | |
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Cruise performance | |
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Ceiling with one engine inoperative | |
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Arrival at the match point | |
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The prediction of aircraft reliability and maintainability targets | |
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Introduction | |
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Commercial aircraft dispatch reliability prediction | |
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References | |
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Index | |