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- Category: Aircraft Flight (continued)
- Maximum angle of climb
- Rate of climb
- Gliding flight
- Performance in turning flight
- Supersonic aircraft
- Supersonic aerofoils
- Planforms for supersonic flight
- Subsonic and supersonic leading edges
- The centre section
- Subsonic and supersonic trailing edges
- The supersonic swept wing and the boundary layer
- Wings with large angles of sweep
- The swing-wing
- A few final remarks on planform
- The complete aircraft
- Supersonic area rule
- Favourable interference effects
- 'Shuttle' type vehicles
- Single stage orbiters
- Wave-riders
- Scramjet propelled hypersonic aircraft
- Wing sections in transonic flow
- Supercritical aerofoils for transonic flow
- The buffet boundary
- Swept wings in transonic flow
- Getting the load distribution right
- More about the tip flow
- Dealing with the wing centre section
- Adding a fuselage
- Transonic area rule
- Some further non-aerodynamic considerations in wing design
- Swept forward wings
- Flying wings and blended wing-fuselage concepts
- Some concluding remarks
- Aircraft control
- The pilot's controls
- Indicating instruments
- Coupling between yaw and roll
- Slab, all-moving and all-flying tail surfaces
- Canard surfaces
- The vee-tail
- Roll control
- Roll control by spoilers
- Effect of roll on flight direction
- The properly executed turn
- Roll control problems
- Unconventional control surfaces
- Direct lift control
- Mechanical control systems
- Servo-tabs and trim tabs
- Powered servo controls
- Feedback or feel
- Safety of powered controls
- Control harmonisation
- Aircraft control at low speed
- Control at high angles of attack
- Control in transonic flight
- Automatic control systems and autopilots
- The control of helicopters
- Static stability
- Longitudinal and lateral stability
- The longitudinal static stability of conventional aircraft
- Conditions for longitudinal static stability
- Stick-free stability
- Stability of canard aircraft
- Tandem wing
- Stability of tailless aircraft
- Delta-winged aircraft
- CG margin
- Centre of gravity limits
- Engine thrust line
- Other factors affecting longitudinal static stability
- Deliberately unstable aircraft
- Lateral stability
- Rolling stability
- High wings
- Speed stability
- Dynamic stability
- Longitudinal dynamic stability - pitching oscillations
- Effect of altitude on short period pitching oscillation
- The phugoid
- Roll damping
- The spiral mode
- The Dutch roll
- Effect of altitude on Dutch roll
- Artificial stability - Mach trimmers and yaw dampers
- The spin
- Take-off and landing
- Take-off
- Take-off configuration
- Some aspects of safety at take-off - decision speeds
- Approach and landing
- Flying down the glide path
- The flare and touch-down
- Effects of wind on landing
- Landing aids and automatic landing
- Unusual landing requirements
- Structural influences
- Control reversal
- Dynamic cases